Hi,
Your problem is a common mistake made by those who don't read the manual.
http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Reserved_words.html
as described in the above web-page, "describe" is a reserved word.
Regards,
Jorge
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt "TrollBoy" Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: Table Creation woes
> can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I keep getting the error
> "You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'describe text, fulltext text,
> section VARCHAR (32) DEFAULT '0', type VARCHAR' at line 6" and I don't
> understand why:
>
> CREATE TABLE article(
> id INT (4) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
> title VARCHAR (128) DEFAULT '0',
> logosmall VARCHAR (128) DEFAULT '0',
> logolarge VARCHAR (128) DEFAULT '0',
> describe text,
> fulltext text,
> section VARCHAR (32) DEFAULT '0',
> type VARCHAR (32) DEFAULT '0',
> PRIMARY KEY(id),
> UNIQUE(id)
> );
>
>
>
>
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