Question

Im not sure what is wrong with my create table here. Keeps giving me error

ERROR 1064 (42000): 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 'character
(
character_id VarChar(15) PRIMARY KEY,
name VarChar(30) NOT NULL,
sex' at line 1

I dont see any errors in it?

CREATE TABLE character
(
character_id VarChar(15) PRIMARY KEY,
name VarChar(30) NOT NULL,
sex VarChar(7) NOT NULL,
age INT NOT NULL,
hair VarChar(10) NOT NULL,
eye VarChar(10) NOT NULL,
skin VarChar(12) NOT NULL,
body VarChar(12) NOT NULL,
from VarChar(20) NOT NULL
) engine=innobd;

Answer 1

character and from are reserved words in MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/reserved-words.html

To use a reserved word as a field/table identifier, you’ll have to quote it with backticks:

create table `character` (
...
body VarChar(12) NOT NULL,
`from` VarChar(20) NOT NULL
...