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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:22:42+00:00

I received a MySQL data dump and am trying to insert the data into

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I received a MySQL data dump and am trying to insert the data into a set of temporary tables. The creation statement for the first table is shown below. When I run this I receive the error: ‘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 ''temp_books'( 'ID'int( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 'start'varchar( 20 ) ' at line 1‘. I’ve checked the documentation for MySQL syntax, and I don’t see that the problem is.

CREATE TABLE 'temp_books' (   'ID' int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,   'start' varchar(20) NOT NULL,   'customer_id' int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',   'total_num' int(11) NOT NULL,   'amount' double(5,2) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0.00',   'changed' timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,   PRIMARY KEY ('ID'),   UNIQUE KEY 'start' ('start') ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=4853 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
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  1. You shouldn’t put single-quotes on your identifiers. If you’re going to quote them use the ‘back tick’ character (“`”). You can also use double-quotes but you have to specify that mode:

    SET sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES';

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifiers.html

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