Question

I am trying to create three tables however I am getting error as

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 'REFERENCES personal_details(personID)
)'

The above error is for third table i.e. table hobbies_person.

I am creating tables as follow.

CREATE TABLE personal_details (
    personID   INT PRIMARY KEY,
    firstName  varchar(30),
    middleName varchar(30),
    lastName   varchar(30),
    age        INT,
    aboutMe    varchar(500)
);

CREATE TABLE hobbies (
    hobbID    INT PRIMARY KEY,
    hobbName  varchar(30)
);

CREATE TABLE hobbies_person (
    personID INT,
    hobbID   INT,
    PRIMARY KEY (personID, hobbID),
    FOREIGN KEY personID REFERENCES personal_details(personID)
);

I also tried with

CREATE TABLE hobbies_person (
    personID INT,
    hobbID   INT,
    PRIMARY KEY (personID, hobbID),
    FOREIGN KEY personID REFERENCES personal_details(personID),
    FOREIGN KEY hobbID   REFERENCES hobbies(hobbID)
);

but still same error.

Link to check query

Any idea how to tackle this?

NOTE

In table hobbies_person I am using composite primary key as PRIMARY KEY (personID, hobbID),

Answer 1

You forgot the () around your foreign key

FOREIGN KEY (personID) REFERENCES personal_details(personID)