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Asked: 2026-05-16T18:27:33+00:00

$query = SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `username` = ‘admin’;#works $query = SELECT *

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$query = "SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `username` = 'admin'";#works

$query = "SELECT * FROM 'users' WHERE 'username' = 'admin'";#does not work

Is this yet another quirk Im going to have to get used to, or is something funny going on?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Single quotes (') and double quotes (") are used to specify strings in MySQL. Backticks (`) are used for column/table references.

    Your second query will fail for two reasons:

    1. 'users' specifies a string, not a reference to the table users, and FROM expects a table reference.
    2. 'username' = 'admin' does a string comparison, and the string username is never equal to the string admin.
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