Question

When I try to run this statement:

CREATE TABLE 'score_table' 
(
  'name' text NOT NULL, 
  'email' text NOT NULL, 
  'company' text NOT NULL, 
  'score_total' bigint(11) NOT NULL, 
  'score_string' longtext NOT NULL, 
  'id' int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, 
  'date' timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY  ('id') 
) 
ENGINE=MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=0 ;

I get this error:

#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 ''score_table' 
('name' text NOT NULL, 'email' text NOT NULL, 'company' text NOT N' at line 1

And I have no idea what’s wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Table and field names need to be put in backticks instead of single quotes (or no quotes at all):

CREATE TABLE `score_table`.....