Contacts Management Tutorial -- MySQL error on last step!

Question

I just completed the contacts management tutorial and in the final exercise using the QuB I get the following error:
"You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY name_con' at line 1"
This is interesting because you are instructed to remove the "ORDER BY name_con" from the SQL query (pg. 62) because, according to the author, "This step makes the query easier to view when you open MX Query Builder." Leaving the "ORDER BY name_con" produces the same result. Any ideas on why the error is generated? I was nearly done with my first ADDT tutorial and all had gone well up to this point!!!

Answer 1

Hi Paul,
just a bit frustrated after a rather long session
yeah I understand this of course, but replies to whatever question may take some time, and - hey - we also had a weekend :-)
Any idea how to access the complete SQL query?
humm -- isn´t the complete query displayed close to the "You have an error in your SQL syntax..." error message ?
I've a feeling the "nulls" may be guilty
you can easily "debug" this by (temporarily) changing NOT NULL columns to NULL in the DB and hence get a clue whether this assumption is right or not.
However, I think it´s probably just a tiny syntax error, as that error message indicates -- what exactly appears directly preceeding the 'ORDER BY name_con' part of your query ?
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver