Special Characters in MySQL Table Name

Question

I created a table as follows:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS \'e!\' (
`aa` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`showName` TEXT NOT NULL default \'\',
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Answer 1

Quote your ambiguous or "special" table names with a back tick:

INSERT INTO `e!` ...

Or better, don't use special characters in table names to avoid such problems.