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Databases Reporting with SQL Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results Limiting the Number of Results

Posted by sulaiman abouabdah
sulaiman abouabdah
5,314 Points

Error when inserting my own table on my command line message ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax;

I have created all the tables in this video on my laptop.

I only have one problem with inserting data for the orders table. Can you please help me with this issue?

mysql> INSERT INTO orders (id, product_id, user_id, address_id, ordered_on, status, cost) VALUES (1, 14, 1, 2, DATE("now", "-4 days"), "shipped", 10.99);

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ' "-4 days"), "shipped", 10.99)' at line 1 mysql>

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

Looks like you'll have to use the DATE_ADD function with MariaDB. There is also a DATE_SUB function for some reason. Both according to their description allow negative intervals.

You are also inserting the primary key id field when this field (at least in SQL playground ) is auto-incrementing,