“Unknown column in 'field list'”, but column does exist

Question

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `transactions`;
CREATE TABLE `transactions` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `purchase_date` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMAR         


        

Answer 1

This might not help anyone else, but adding this "just in case" it helps someone.

In my situation it was a different solution.

I receive large datasets as Excel CSV files and use a (WIL) script to convert the .csv file into an importable .sql file. I had an error in my script whereby these two lines did not reference the same table name (I had hard-coded the first location and forgot to update it):

* "INSERT INTO `old_table_name` (`cid`, `date`, etc etc"
* "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `":_dbName:"` (etc etc "

I just changed the first line to also get the table name from the variable, and voila!

* "INSERT INTO `":_dbName:"` (`cid`, `date`, etc etc"

So check those two lines in your import SQL file.