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nath_vringd
nath_vringd

Reputation: 45

SQLite syntax error near "CREATE TABLE"

Here's my code:

    String CREATE_DATABASE = "CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_NAME + "("  + 
            KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, " + 
            "title TEXT, "+
            "author TEXT, "+
            "state TEXT);";

    db.execSQL(CREATE_DATABASE);

The LogCat says : 12-11 23:43:50.553: E/AndroidRuntime(3706): android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "CREATE TABLE": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: CREATE TABLE PapersTable(_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, title TEXT, author TEXT, state TEXT);

Upvotes: 3

Views: 15245

Answers (4)

Mahad Ahmed
Mahad Ahmed

Reputation: 309

Mine was missing the closing ) after the table body.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXIST user_table (
  id integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
  title TEXT,
  author TEXT,
  state TEXT
); -- this closing ')' was missing

Upvotes: 0

Vaibhav Agarwal
Vaibhav Agarwal

Reputation: 4499

Try this code in your onCreate method.

  1. Remove AUTOINCREMENT for KEY_ID as it is already declared as Primary KEY.
  2. Remove ";" you placed just after the last bracket in string i.e. second last semicolon in string CREATE_DATABASE.
  3. Remove db.close() from oncreate()

Code To Replace: String CREATE_DATABASE = "CREATE TABLE "+TABLE_NAME+ " ( "+KEY_ID+" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, "+KEY_TITLE+"TEXT, "+KEY_AUTHOR+"TEXT, "+KEY_STATE+"TEXT )"; db.execSQL(CREATE_DATABASE);

Upvotes: 0

laalto
laalto

Reputation: 152797

The CREATE TABLE syntax is all right as you've posted it.

I suspect there's a non-breaking space (ASCII 0xA0) between CREATE and TABLE. Replace it with the regular space (ASCII 0x20). That would explain the syntax error you posted: parser is treating CREATE TABLE as a single unknown token and not as two separate known tokens CREATE and TABLE.

What is definitely wrong is that you call db.close() on the SQLiteDatabase db passed in as a parameter to your function. You should only close databases you opened yourself and closing it this way will lead to an exception, albeit a different one.

Upvotes: 4

Prahlad Yeri
Prahlad Yeri

Reputation: 3653

In SQLite, a column declared integer primary key will auto increment, so try removing that:

String CREATE_DATABASE = "CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_NAME + "("  + 
        KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, " + 
        "title TEXT, "+
        "author TEXT, "+
        "state TEXT);";

See this answer for reference.

Upvotes: -1

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