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Asked: 2026-06-02T10:48:43+00:00

This works: INSERT INTO people (`name`, `job`) values (‘Bob’, ‘sales’) but this fails: INSERT

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This works:

INSERT INTO people (`name`, `job`) values ('Bob', 'sales')

but this fails:

INSERT INTO people (`name`, `Sold`) values ('Bob', '56')

Giving the error:
Unknown column 'Sold' in 'field list'

All fields are of type varchar. Can’t figure this out!

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  1. Editorial Team

    This error is referring to the table column name Sold in the table people.

    Your two examples are meaningless because you didn’t successfully insert a value into the column Sold in the first example. Neither did you successfully insert a number into a VARCHAR column in the first example.

    This has nothing to do with a type mismatch, the error says this column is unknown (doesn’t exist).

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