Question

in MySQL 5.1, i named a field ‘Starting’. However, eachtime i would used an SQL query, it would say invalid SQL syntax. After some google search, i found out that STARTING is a reserved SQL word, but Undocumented. Can anyone tell me what it is? thanks.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/reserved-words.html

Answer 1

1. It’s an undocumented special word with no use, and is reserved for future use
2. You should be enclosing table and column names in backticks (which would have avoided this scenario).