Have you read about reserved words in MySql? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/reserved-words.html
-- João Cândido de Souza Neto "Dave M G" <d...@articlass.org> escreveu na mensagem news:4d663ba0.5090...@articlass.org... > MySQL users, > > Simple question: > > In one table in my database, the column was named "group". > > I kept getting failed query errors until I renamed the column. > > I've never before encountered a situation where MySQL mistook a column > name for part of the query syntax. > > Should I never use the word "group" for column names? Seems a little > silly. Is there a way to protect column names to that there is no > confusion? > > -- > Dave M G -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
