Rename a table in MySQL
Renaming a table is not working in MySQL RENAME TABLE group TO member; The error message is #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 'group RENAME TO member' at line 1 The query is working fine on other tables for me, but not with the table group . Joachim Isaksson group is a keyword (part of GROUP BY ) in MySQL, you need to surround it with backticks to show MySQL that you want it interpreted as a table name: RENAME TABLE `group` TO `member`; added (see comments)- Those are not single quotes.