Question

This may be a futile question, but I will ask anyway. I have now learned that it is bad practice to use a question mark at the end of a field name, as is the case with the Paid? field in the following statement:

$sql = "INSERT INTO `tblAppeals` 
( 
`#`,
`Year`,
`Property#`,
`Paid?`,
`Outcome`,
`ResolvedBy`,
`AppealCategory`
) 
VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)";

When I try to run the statement, I get an error because the question mark is not handled correctly. I haven’t been able to find any workarounds to avoid having to go back and change the field name.

Is there any way I can keep the field name the same, Paid?, and still use it in the INSERT statement? Thanks.

Answer 1

It looks like its an issue with your query layer and not MySQL itself. That is, whatever is doing the bind params handling is eagerly looking for all ? in the SQL and not just whats in the VALUES part of the clause.

What database drive / query framework are you using?