MySQL: Can't create table (errno: 150)

Question

I am trying to import a .sql file and its failing on creating tables.

Here\'s the query that fails:

CREATE TABLE `data` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NUL         


        

Answer 1

I experienced this error when have ported Windows application to Linux. In Windows, database table names are case-insensitive, and in Linux they are case-sensitive, probably because of file system difference. So, on Windows table Table1 is the same as table1, and in REFERENCES both table1 and Table1 works. On Linux, when application used table1 instead of Table1 when it created database structure I saw error #150; when I made correct character case in Table1 references, it started to work on Linux too. So, if nothing else helps, make you sure that in REFERENCES you use correct character case in table name when you on Linux.