SQL syntax error near desc

Question

The error I get is:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to

Answer 1

DESC is an SQL keyword used to specify direction in an ORDER BY clause. That's probably the problem. Try surrounding it in backticks like `Desc`.

Also, try to be careful not to use keywords or SQL functions as field names in the future, it can lead to really difficult to debug errors.