Can we have the table name as “option” in MySQL?

Question

I am very, very new to MYSQL.I tried to create a table named \"option\". My SQL Query is :

create table option(

id int not

Answer 1

You can use SQL keywords as table names in MySQL if you escape them with back-quotes.

 CREATE TABLE `option` (
     ...
 )

It's not normally a good idea to do so, though.