Question

I has a MySQL database set up locally with phpmyadmin. I wanted to use the available tables in a remote database, so I exported the SQL from phpmyadmin and tried to run it on the other DB.

This is what the export gave me:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `messages` (
  `ID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `Title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `Message` text NOT NULL,
  `MsgType` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Important` int(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `Poster` int(5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Date` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=37 ;

However, now it complains that there is a parse error

near ‘CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, PRIMARY KEY (ID) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFA”.

It worked on my local db, why not here? What changed and how do I fix it?

EDIT: I’ve tried using other functions like NOW() or CURDATE() as well, same problem.

Answer 1

From the documentation:

Note In older versions of MySQL (prior to 4.1), the properties of the
TIMESTAMP data type differed significantly in several ways from what
is described in this section (see the MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1 Reference
Manual for details); these include syntax extensions which are
deprecated in MySQL 5.1, and no longer supported in MySQL 5.5. This
has implications for performing a dump and restore or replicating
between MySQL Server versions.

MySQL 4.0.24 is incredibly outdated, at this point – consider migrating to a version that starts with a 5. 🙂