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May 2nd, 2008, 08:13 PM

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Bad insert syntax?

This should be easy, but if it were easy, I wouldn't be having these problems.
I'm trying to do a basic MySQL insert in this format, but it's erroring out. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Code:

INSERT INTO 20080502 (ORDER_NUMBER,ITEM_SKU,ITEM_QUANTITY,FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,COMPANY,ADDRESS1,ADDRESS2,CITY,STATE,POSTA  L_CODE,COUNTRY,SHIPPING,EMAIL,PHONE,COMMENTS) VALUES ('809292929','BB002','4','Tyler','Durden','Paper Street Soap Company','553 Paper Street','','Omaha','NE','44849','UNITED STATES OF AMERICA','USP1CL','tyler@alternium.net','(727) 666-6666','')

For what it's worth, the spaces in POSTAL_CODE aren't in the actual query. I'm not sure why it's showing up that way.

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May 2nd, 2008, 08:26 PM

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what type is POSTAL_CODE ? if it is a number there shouldn't be placed ' ' around the value, which will make the sql like this:

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INSERT INTO 20080502 (ORDER_NUMBER,ITEM_SKU,ITEM_QUANTITY,FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,COMPANY,ADDRESS1,ADDRESS2,CITY,STATE,POSTA  L_CODE,COUNTRY,SHIPPING,EMAIL,PHONE,COMMENTS) VALUES ('809292929','BB002','4','Tyler','Durden','Paper Street Soap Company','553 Paper Street','','Omaha','NE',44849,'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA','USP1CL','tyler@alternium.net','(727) 666-6666','')

May 2nd, 2008, 08:32 PM

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Everything's VarChar of varying sizes.
Your comment did give me an idea, but I went all the way down to one variable like so:

Code:

INSERT INTO 20080502 (ORDER_NUMBER) VALUES ('8092929290')

In this case, ORDER_NUMBER is VarChar (10).
Still didn't work.

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Originally Posted by MrFujin

what type is POSTAL_CODE ? if it is a number there shouldn't be placed ' ' around the value, which will make the sql like this:

Code:

INSERT INTO 20080502 (ORDER_NUMBER,ITEM_SKU,ITEM_QUANTITY,FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,COMPANY,ADDRESS1,ADDRESS2,CITY,STATE,POSTA  L_CODE,COUNTRY,SHIPPING,EMAIL,PHONE,COMMENTS) VALUES ('809292929','BB002','4','Tyler','Durden','Paper Street Soap Company','553 Paper Street','','Omaha','NE',44849,'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA','USP1CL','tyler@alternium.net','(727) 666-6666','')

May 2nd, 2008, 09:41 PM

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oh, i love the "guess the error message" game, can i play?

put backticks around your table name

if that's not it, i give up

maybe you will ahve to tell us the error message after all

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May 2nd, 2008, 09:47 PM

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Wait a minute!
Backticks around everything or just the table name?

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Originally Posted by r937

oh, i love the "guess the error message" game, can i play?

put backticks around your table name

if that's not it, i give up

maybe you will ahve to tell us the error message after all

May 2nd, 2008, 09:53 PM

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Well, you're probably not literally a saint, but you're just next to one in my book. The backticks did it. Let me know if there's any "karma" type thing I can allocate to you. I really, really, really appreciate the help.

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Originally Posted by r937

oh, i love the "guess the error message" game, can i play?

put backticks around your table name

if that's not it, i give up

maybe you will ahve to tell us the error message after all

May 2nd, 2008, 10:02 PM

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May 3rd, 2008, 06:32 AM

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Quote:

INSERT INTO 20080502

It's not allowed to start with numbers in a table name nor numbers only.

And also, 20080502 sounds like a date, the second of May 2008. If that's the case, your data model is wrong. You should never have a table per day, only one table with all dates should do the job. A couple of million, billion or even zillion records shouldn't be a problem.

So, why do you need a bad name like this ?

And backticks are eval.

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