Question

I’m attempting to create a table called Students, with only one field, student_name.

student_name should be a VARCHAR and a primary key, because I want to uniquely identify students by their name.

CREATE TABLE 'swinters'.'Students' (
  'student_name' VARCHAR NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY ('student_name')
)
ENGINE = InnoDB;


MYSQL Error Number 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 'NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY ('student_name') ) ENGINE = InnoDB' at line 2.


Answer 1

You need to specify the VARCHAR(N), where N is the maximum string length