title: Can I have a keyspace in Cassandra whose name starts with a number?
body: <p>So I read <a href="https://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.0/cql/cql_reference/create_keyspace_r.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.0/cql/cql_reference/create_keyspace_r.html</a>, where it says "Keyspace names are 32 or fewer alpha-numeric characters and underscores, the first of which is an alpha character.". And yet if I open up cqlsh with Cassandra 2.1.2 and do this: </p>
  
  <p><code>cqlsh&gt; create keyspace "123abc" with replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 1};
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  <p>then it creates the keyspace no problem and I can insert and query data no problem. Is the documentation lying to me?</p>