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Bob McKay
Bob McKay
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Posted by Bob McKay
Bob McKay
5,814 Points

Baffled by MySQL Create Table

Hi all,

I'm sure I'm doing something stupid (or not doing something smart!) but I'm baffled by a really simple step in the MySQL foundation course - I'm being asked to do the following:

Create a genres table called "t_genres" with an auto incrementing primary key called "pk_id" and a unique column called "uk_name" that can't be null. The "uk_name" is a varchar of up to 45 characters.

I am entering this:

CREATE TABLE t_genres (pk_id INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, uk_name VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL)

But I'm getting this error returned (and I'm failing):

43df43e0-46c7-4f61-abf4-8a5d68595ae4.rb:38:in eval': wrong number of arguments (at least 1) (ArgumentError) from (eval):11:in<main>' from 43df43e0-46c7-4f61-abf4-8a5d68595ae4.rb:38:in eval' from 43df43e0-46c7-4f61-abf4-8a5d68595ae4.rb:38:in<main>'

Any ideas? Been banging my head against it for a while now!

Thanks

Bob

3 Answers

Bob McKay
Bob McKay
5,814 Points
Bob McKay
Bob McKay
5,814 Points

Sod it - completely missed the 'unique' specification.

Véronique Bellamy
Véronique Bellamy
20,810 Points

Is your issue resolved, hun?

Véronique Bellamy
Véronique Bellamy
20,810 Points
Véronique Bellamy
Véronique Bellamy
20,810 Points

I don't see anything wrong with your code but I did spruce it up a bit. Maybe try this?

CREATE TABLE t_genres (
    pk_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    uk_name VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL
);

Let me know if this works out for you. :)

Bob McKay
Bob McKay
5,814 Points
Bob McKay
Bob McKay
5,814 Points

Yes all sorted thanks Jessica, I was missing 'UNIQUE' from the SQL (I just didn't see it in the instructions - my coding was ok, it was my English comprehension at fault! :-D

Véronique Bellamy
Véronique Bellamy
20,810 Points

C'est la vie. ;)

Good luck in your adventures.