On 18-Mar-01 Rodney J. Woodruff wrote:
> Can someone look at this syntax and tell me what is wrong with it. Any
> and all help is appreciated. I worked with several databases and have
> never had any trouble writing CREATE statements in the past.
>
> I get the following error when I run this create statement. So what is
> wrong with my syntax. I found this same error when I searched the list
> but none of them referred to a similar create statement causing this
> error. Thank you very much for all your help.
>
> -- Rodney
>
> ERROR 1064 at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'NOT
> NULL PRIMARY KEY,
> first_name CHAR(30),
> middle_name CHAR(30),
> last_name CH' at line 3
>
>
> CREATE TABLE students
> (
> student_id VARCHAR NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
how big a varchar ?
> first_name CHAR(30),
this is worthless (see *Note Silent column changes)
> email_address VARCHAR,
as above.
> Before posting, please check:
> http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)
Regards,
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