Hugh,

Agreed that the MySQL error reporter is primitive, and that 'lint for MySQL' would be a smash hit, but if you look up error 1064 you'll find it is a naming error, two of which are visible in your error report--column names enclosed in double quotes.

PB
http://www.artfulsoftware.com

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Hugh Sasse wrote:

I'm fairly new to MySQL and am getting an error messages like:

ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 5: 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 '"id" int(14) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
   "forename" varchar(40) NOT NU' at line 2
neelix hgs 18 %>
So it doesn't tell me exactly where, or what the nature of the
syntax error is (and it can't even tell me it is version 4.1.13
which I know already).  It has truncated the second line, so it's not
that the rest is missing.  My editor's syntax highlighter doesn't
show anything awful.  This is actually for lines 7 and 8 of the
input, the first 4 lines being comments, so the numbering in the
output is wrong.

Are there any tools (like lint for C) to be more verbose and helpful
about this?
       Thank you,
       Hugh




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