I'd have to agree with Alec here (over Erik's response). There's no technical reason, surely, to use 'desc' instead of 'description' - people always seem afraid of using non-abbreviated fieldnames / function names / variable names. Whilst it may add a little more to your typing, it adds so much to the making your system more understandable. Code is immediately readable, the DB schema is more obvious, result: the whole system is improved.
/2 pennies' worth --Rob > DESC is a reserved word in MySQL: it is short for DESCENDING and is used to reverse the sort order in SELECTs. You an create a field with that name by enclosing it in backticks: `desc` whenever you need it. However, this would be regarded by many as very bad practice. It would be better to change the field name e.g. to "descr" or even "description". Making the field name longer and more meaningful costs next to nothing. Alec Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13/07/2006 16:42 To mysql@lists.mysql.com cc Subject Field name DESC Hello, i want to know how i can create a table with the feild name "desc" ? when i do: CREATE TABLE bank ( name varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', desc varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', ) the desc is badely interpreted... -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ < ---------- Original Message ---------- FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:01:10 +0100 SUBJECT: Re: Field name DESC DESC is a reserved word in MySQL: it is short for DESCENDING and is used to reverse the sort order in SELECTs. You an create a field with that name by enclosing it in backticks: `desc` whenever you need it. However, this would be regarded by many as very bad practice. It would be better to change the field name e.g. to "descr" or even "description". Making the field name longer and more meaningful costs next to nothing. Alec Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13/07/2006 16:42 To mysql@lists.mysql.com cc Subject Field name DESC Hello, i want to know how i can create a table with the feild name "desc" ? when i do: CREATE TABLE bank ( name varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', desc varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', ) the desc is badely interpreted... -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]