describe is a reserved word, use another name for the column.
http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Reserved_words.html
> 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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