Newbie stumped by table error
Hello- I'm just beginning to teach myself MySQL with the help of Michael Widenius' book MySQL. I've entered the create table statement exactly as shown in the book (pg. 28 if you have the book) and I get an error message every time. This is very frustrating as I can't go any further with the tutorial without creating all the tables first. Could someone on this list please help me so I can correctly create this table? Incidentally, I checked the corrections document on the book publisher's web site and there were no corrections for this page. This makes me even more stumped... Here's the statement I submitted: CREATE TABLE member ( last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, suffix VARCHAR(5) NULL, expiration DATE NULL DEFAULT -00-00, email VARCHAR(100) NULL, street VARCHAR(50) NULL, city VARCHAR(50) NULL, state VARCHAR(2) NULL, zip VARCHAR(10) NULL, phone VARCHAR(20) NULL, interests VARCHAR(255) NULL ) Here's the error message I keep getting: ERROR 1064 at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '-00-00, email VARCHAR(100) NULL, street VARCHAR(50) NULL, city VARCHAR(50) NULL,' at line 6 Any help would be most appreciated. Jeff Caron - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
Re: Newbie stumped by table error
Tim, I noticed that too. I only repeated it when I typed it into the email message though, not my MySQL monitor. Thanks, Jeff From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:19:29 -0400 (EDT) To: Jeff Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie stumped by table error Did you try taking out one of the 'last_name' field definitions?? It looks like you have two there... - TIM Hello- I'm just beginning to teach myself MySQL with the help of Michael Widenius' book MySQL. I've entered the create table statement exactly as shown in the book (pg. 28 if you have the book) and I get an error message every time. This is very frustrating as I can't go any further with the tutorial without creating all the tables first. Could someone on this list please help me so I can correctly create this table? Incidentally, I checked the corrections document on the book publisher's web site and there were no corrections for this page. This makes me even more stumped... Here's the statement I submitted: CREATE TABLE member ( last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, suffix VARCHAR(5) NULL, expiration DATE NULL DEFAULT -00-00, email VARCHAR(100) NULL, street VARCHAR(50) NULL, city VARCHAR(50) NULL, state VARCHAR(2) NULL, zip VARCHAR(10) NULL, phone VARCHAR(20) NULL, interests VARCHAR(255) NULL ) Here's the error message I keep getting: ERROR 1064 at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '-00-00, email VARCHAR(100) NULL, street VARCHAR(50) NULL, city VARCHAR(50) NULL,' at line 6 Any help would be most appreciated. Jeff Caron - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php -- -TIM - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
Re: Newbie stumped by table error
Tim, I took out the dashes as another person suggested and that made it work. I typed in -00-00 because that is what it says to enter in my MySQL book (by Michael Widenius). Thanks, Jeff From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:20:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Jeff Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie stumped by table error Also, I don' think -00-00 is a valid Date. You might want to use something else as a default. - TIM Hello- I'm just beginning to teach myself MySQL with the help of Michael Widenius' book MySQL. I've entered the create table statement exactly as shown in the book (pg. 28 if you have the book) and I get an error message every time. This is very frustrating as I can't go any further with the tutorial without creating all the tables first. Could someone on this list please help me so I can correctly create this table? Incidentally, I checked the corrections document on the book publisher's web site and there were no corrections for this page. This makes me even more stumped... Here's the statement I submitted: CREATE TABLE member ( last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, suffix VARCHAR(5) NULL, expiration DATE NULL DEFAULT -00-00, email VARCHAR(100) NULL, street VARCHAR(50) NULL, city VARCHAR(50) NULL, state VARCHAR(2) NULL, zip VARCHAR(10) NULL, phone VARCHAR(20) NULL, interests VARCHAR(255) NULL ) Here's the error message I keep getting: ERROR 1064 at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '-00-00, email VARCHAR(100) NULL, street VARCHAR(50) NULL, city VARCHAR(50) NULL,' at line 6 Any help would be most appreciated. Jeff Caron - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php -- -TIM - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
