Question

I can’t figure out what’s causing my INSERT INTO’s to fail to certain table in MySql. I can manage them to other tables. The table looks like:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `Match` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `match_no` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `season` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `hometeam` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `awayteam` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `match_no` (`match_no`),
  KEY `season` (`season`),
  KEY `hometeam` (`hometeam`),
  KEY `awayteam` (`awayteam`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

And the command is

INSERT INTO Match (`match_no`, `season`, `hometeam`, `awaytem`) VALUES (1, 1, 2, 3)

All I get 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 ‘Match (match_no, season, hometeam, awaytem) VALUES (1, 1, 2, 3)’ at line 1

I have checked the manual and half-a-dozen examples from the web and whatnought and tried all sorts of changes to the syntax in case there is some MySql specific oddity, but nothing seems to work.

Answer 1

Change awaytem to awayteam and see how it goes and use `Match` as the table: match is a reserved word.