After fixing Error 1253 (MySQL: Unable to fulling forward engineering Sakila (sample) into server), I have Error 1628.
Executing SQL script in server
ERROR: Error 1628: Comment for table ‘customer’ is too long (max = 60)
Scripts:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `sakila`.`customer` (
`customer_id` SMALLINT(5) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`store_id` TINYINT(3) UNSIGNED NOT NULL ,
`first_name` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL ,
`last_name` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL ,
`email` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL ,
`address_id` SMALLINT(5) UNSIGNED NOT NULL ,
`active` TINYINT(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE ,
`create_date` DATETIME NOT NULL ,
`last_update` TIMESTAMP NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ,
PRIMARY KEY (`customer_id`) ,
INDEX `idx_fk_store_id` (`store_id` ASC) ,
INDEX `idx_fk_address_id` (`address_id` ASC) ,
INDEX `idx_last_name` (`last_name` ASC) ,
CONSTRAINT `fk_customer_address`
FOREIGN KEY (`address_id` )
REFERENCES `sakila`.`address` (`address_id` )
ON DELETE RESTRICT
ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `fk_customer_store`
FOREIGN KEY (`store_id` )
REFERENCES `sakila`.`store` (`store_id` )
ON DELETE RESTRICT
ON UPDATE CASCADE)
ENGINE = InnoDB
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET = utf8
COMMENT ‘Table storing all customers. Holds foreign keys to the address table and the store table where this customer is registered.\n\nBasic information about the customer like first and last name are stored in the table itself. Same for the date the record was created and when the information was last updated.’
SQL script execution finished: statements: 3 succeeded, 1 failed
As stated in the MySQL docs, a comment is limited to 255 characters: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-table.html#id3411882. Your comment is 305 characters, and it would seem, from the error message, that your particular MySQL install has a 60 character limit.