Question

I am sure this is just a syntax screw up, but having looked at the manual, I can’t see how I’m going wrong:

INSERT INTO 
`2012`(country_name) 
VALUES 
(`Afghanistan`),(`Algeria`),(`Botswana`),(`Burkina Faso`)

Where country_name is a column in my database. However, on submitting the query I get:

Error Code: 1054. Unknown column ‘Afghanistan’ in ‘field list’

But Afghanistan is not mean to be a field, it’s a value! What am I missing? Thanks!

Answer 1

values should be wrap with single quotes, not backtick

INSERT INTO 
`2012`(country_name) 
VALUES 
('Afghanistan'),('Algeria'),('Botswana'),('Burkina Faso')

backtick are used to escape columnNames and tableNames that are reserved keywords in MySQL. ex,

INSERT INTO `table` (`unique`, `from`, `to`) VALUES ('','','')