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Rain336
Rain336

Reputation: 1498

SQL Syntax Error with CREATE TABLE

I get a SQL Sytax Error when I try to execute this code:

CREATE TABLE ? (
ID INT(255) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`UUID` VARCHAR(36) NOT NULL
);

I use a PreparedStatement to replace the ? with a String

The Error Message:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: You have an errorin your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL serverversion for the right syntax to use near ''95f7ed55-ab3d-46f9-bffe-72bf5780a1ec' (ID INT(255) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIM' at line 1

Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1416

Answers (5)

Snehal Mulay
Snehal Mulay

Reputation: 11

Please try following query syntax:

CREATE TABLE table_name (ID INT(255) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,UUID VARCHAR(36) NOT NULL);

Upvotes: 1

Roel
Roel

Reputation: 457

The sign (-) character is not allowed when not using quotes. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifiers.html

An identifier may be quoted or unquoted. If an identifier contains special characters or is a reserved word, you must quote it whenever you refer to it. (Exception: A reserved word that follows a period in a qualified name must be an identifier, so it need not be quoted.)

This is executed now:

CREATE TABLE 95f7ed55-ab3d-46f9-bffe-72bf5780a1ec (
ID INT(255) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`UUID` VARCHAR(36) NOT NULL
);

But the identifier on the first line needs to be quoted:

CREATE TABLE `95f7ed55-ab3d-46f9-bffe-72bf5780a1ec` (

Maybe something like this will do the trick? (edit: added "IF NOT EXISTS" from Anil Kumar's answer)

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `?` (
ID INT(255) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`UUID` VARCHAR(36) NOT NULL
);

Upvotes: 1

Anil
Anil

Reputation: 3752

-- DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS createTblDynamically;
DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE createTblDynamically(tblName VARCHAR(255))
BEGIN
    SET @tableName = tblName;
    SET @q = CONCAT('
        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `' , @tableName, '` (
            ID INT(255) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`UUID` VARCHAR(36) NOT NULL
        ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
    ');
    PREPARE stmt FROM @q;
    EXECUTE stmt;
    DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;

END //

Upvotes: 0

Karthik Keyan
Karthik Keyan

Reputation: 426

pls try this code.

        CREATE TABLE `table_name`(
       `ID` INT( 255 ) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
       `UUID` VARCHAR( 36 ) NOT NULL
        );

Note: table_name using this symbol.

Upvotes: 0

pavel
pavel

Reputation: 27082

Put table name into backticks, it contains - which has to be escaped.

You used single quotes ('), which are bad in SQL.

Upvotes: 2

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