Question

This is my SQL Script

CREATE TABLE account_profile
(
accnt_id int NOT NULL ,
first_name varchar(255),
last_name varchar(255),
biography varchar(255),
date_joined DATE,
country varchar(255),
gender varchar(255),
screename varchar(255),
path varchar(255),
FOREIGN KEY (accnt_id) REFERENCES accounts(id)
)

it kept giving me this error
SQL query:

CREATE TABLE ac

MySQL said:

#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 '' at line 1 

What does this specifically mean? what should I do? from my point of view the script is quite okay,I just can’t pin point where’s the error

Answer 1

Make sure you’re using the InnoDB engine. The other engines do not support foreign keys.

CREATE TABLE account_profile
(
...
) ENGINE = INNODB;

Also check if the column account_profile.accnt_id matches the data type of accounts.id exactly. The second column should have an index defined on it (a primary key will do.)