I am new to MySQL and did not notice this before. In order to get the query to work I have to use two different quote marks. Notice that the single quotes on the left where I list the column names are from the keyboard key with the tilde `~ and the single quotes on the right are from the keyboard key with the double quotes ‘ “. This seems strange to me. What am I missing?
Thanks!
CREATE TABLE `indiant1_indiantreaty`.`events`
(`recordNum` INT (6) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY COMMENT 'unique record number',
`Type` VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL COMMENT 'xxxxx Could be an enumeration',
`eventName` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL COMMENT 'The name of event',
`aka` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Another name of the event',
`DATE` DATE NOT NULL COMMENT 'Date of the event',
`site` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL COMMENT 'site of the event',
`description` TINYTEXT NOT NULL COMMENT 'description of the event',
`Signers` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL COMMENT 'A list of signers',
`links` VARCHAR(255) COMMENT 'A list of significant links of signer',
`extra1` VARCHAR(255) COMMENT 'Temporary extra column',
`extra2` VARCHAR(255) COMMENT 'Temporary extra column',
`extra3` VARCHAR(255) COMMENT 'Temporary extra column'
) ENGINE = MYISAM COMMENT = 'Indian Signers Table';
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