mysql-error-1064

This question already has an answer here: Syntax error due to using a reserved word as a table or column name in MySQL 1 answer I am trying to get MySQL to work for my form submissions. I am having a problem when I try to insert into a table. When I put information into my form and click submit (in this example the information is "Idea" in one field and "Description" in the other) I get this response: "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'desc) VALUES ('Idea','Description')' at line 1" I am

I cannot seem to create a trigger. I have tried it the two ways below for the update. I keep getting a syntax error with the insert statement. I have searched forums and web searches for the past 4 hrs with no change. There is alot more code to this, It basically repeats itself. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. I am running MySQL 5.0 and acessing via phpMyAdmin 2.8.2.4 as Administrator/Root. TRY 1 (with and without qoutes on all fields and names) CREATE TRIGGER insert_classes AFTER insert ON Classes FOR EACH ROW BEGIN insert into insert_tracking_classes (classID, Title, classDesc,

The following query selects all posts and each post's owner, all of the comments that belong to each post, and the owner of each comment. I need to only retrieve 5 comments per post. I rewrote the query, but I get an error of "each derived table must have it's own alias". SELECT posts.id AS postId, posts.body, users.id AS userId, users.displayname, comments.id AS commentId, comments.text, commenters.id, commenters.displayname FROM posts JOIN users ON posts.owneruserid = users.id LEFT JOIN comments ON posts.id = comments.postid JOIN users AS commenters ON comments.userId = commenters.id ORDER

This is the code. However I kept getting this error 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 7 Weirdly line 7 is the CREATE TABLE academicnews( line. Which does not contain ')' . CREATE TABLE academicnews( anewsID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, title VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, anewsContent TEXT NOT NULL, imagePath VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL, timeNews DATE NOT NULL, ); #Line 7 Get rid of the last comma. It is unnecessary and invalid. CREATE TABLE academicnews( anewsID INT NOT NULL