Question

I am having the following error when trying to execute the following code in phpMyAdmin. I am using WAMP Server with MySQL version 5.5.8 ::

The error is:

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'NUMERIC(6)   not null, payee  VARCHAR2(20)   not null, amount     DECIMAL(6,2)   no' at line 3

the SQL is:

CREATE TABLE checks 
    (
        check       NUMERIC(6)  not null,
        payee       VARCHAR2(20)    not null,
        amount      DECIMAL(6,2)    not null,
        remarks     VARCHAR2(20)    not null
    )

EDIT

I am also trying to execute this but it gives also error:

CREATE TABLE deposits
    (
        deposit     NUMBER(8),
        whopaid     VARCHAR(25),
        amount      DECIMAL(6,2),
        remarks     VARCHAR(20)
    )

Answer 1

You need to escape check with backticks since it is a reserved word. And in MySQL there is no varchar2 data type, just varchar.

CREATE TABLE checks 
(
    `check`     NUMERIC(6)    not null,
    payee       VARCHAR(20)   not null,
    amount      DECIMAL(6,2)  not null,
    remarks     VARCHAR(20)   not null
)

Also replace NUMBER with NUMERIC in your 2nd create statement.

CREATE TABLE deposits
(
    deposit     NUMERIC(8),
    whopaid     VARCHAR(25),
    amount      DECIMAL(6,2),
    remarks     VARCHAR(20)
)

SQLFiddle example

See MySQL String data types and MySQL numeric data types