* Massimo Bandinelli
> I've problems sincronizing a Slave DB with a Master.
>
> I've a db created with name "foo-db" from phpmyadmin but the
> mysql shell doesn't accept
>
> > create database foo-db;
>
> Do you know something about this??

The '-' character makes this name difficult for the mysql parser to
understand, it could be interpreted as "foo minus db" (even though this
would not make sense in a CREATE DATABASE statement).

Use backticks:

mysql> create database `foo-db`;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.36 sec)

--
Roger


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