INSERT problem

[a***@yahoo.com]

I am trying to populate a table with the following insert query run
through phpmyadmin. When I attempt to run it phpmyadmin just freezes.
After a while "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds
exceeded in /web/myadmin/283/libraries/import.lib.php on line 19"
appears but no indication as why the command fails. Any advice most
welcome.

INSERT INTO `countries` ( `id` , `country` ) VALUES ('1',
'Abkhazia'), ('2', 'Afghanistan'), ('3', 'Akrotiri and Dhekelia'),
('4', 'Åland'), ('5', 'Albania'), ('6', 'Algeria'), ('7', 'American
Samoa'), ('8', 'Andorra'), ('9', 'Angola'), ('10', 'Anguilla'), ('11',
'Antigua and Barbuda '), ('12', 'Argentina'), ('13', 'Armenia'),
('14', 'Aruba'), ('15', 'Ascension Island'), ('16', 'Australia'),
('17', 'Austria'), ('18', 'Azerbaijan'), ('19', 'Bahamas, The'),
('20', 'Bahrain'), ('21', 'Bangladesh'), ('22', 'Barbados '), ('23',
'Belarus'), ('24', 'Belgium'), ('25', 'Belize '), ('26', 'Benin'),
('27', 'Bermuda'), ('28', 'Bhutan'), ('29', 'Bolivia'), ('30', 'Bosnia
and Herzegovina'), ('31', 'Botswana'), ('32', 'Brazil'), ('33',
'Brunei'), ('34', 'Bulgaria'), ('35', 'Burkina Faso '), ('36',
'Burundi'), ('37', 'Cambodia'), ('38', 'Cameroon'), ('39', 'Canada'),
('40', 'Cape Verde'), ('41', 'Cayman Islands'), ('42', 'Central
African Republic'), ('43', 'Chad'), ('44', 'Chile'), ('45', 'China'),
('46', 'Christmas Island'), ('47', 'Cocos Islands'), ('48',
'Colombia'), ('49', 'Comoros'), ('50', 'Congo, Democratic Republic
of'), ('51', 'Congo, Republic of'), ('52', 'Cook Islands'), ('53',
'Costa Rica'), ('54', 'Côte d'Ivoire'), ('55', 'Croatia'), ('56',
'Cuba'), ('57', 'Cyprus'), ('58', 'Czech Republic'), ('59',
'Denmark'), ('60', 'Djibouti'), ('61', 'Dominica'), ('62', 'Dominican
Republic '), ('63', 'Ecuador'), ('64', 'Egypt'), ('65', 'El
Salvador'), ('66', 'Equatorial Guinea'), ('67', 'Eritrea'), ('68',
'Estonia'), ('69', 'Ethiopia'), ('70', 'Falkland Islands'), ('71',
'Faroe Islands'), ('72', 'Fiji'), ('73', 'Finland'), ('74', 'France'),
('75', 'French Polynesia'), ('76', 'Gabon'), ('77', 'Gambia, The'),
('78', 'Georgia'), ('79', 'Germany'), ('80', 'Ghana'), ('81',
'Gibraltar'), ('82', 'Greece'), ('83', 'Greenland'), ('84', 'Grenada
'), ('85', 'Guam'), ('86', 'Guatemala'), ('87', 'Guernsey'), ('88',
'Guinea'), ('89', 'Guinea-Bissau'), ('90', 'Guyana'), ('91', 'Haiti'),
('92', 'Honduras'), ('93', 'Hong Kong'), ('94', 'Hungary'), ('95',
'Iceland'), ('96', 'India'), ('97', 'Indonesia'), ('98', 'Iran'),
('99', 'Iraq'), ('100', 'Ireland'), ('101', 'Isle of Man'), ('102',
'Israel'), ('103', 'Italy'), ('104', 'Jamaica '), ('105', 'Japan '),
('106', 'Jersey'), ('107', 'Jordan'), ('108', 'Kazakhstan'), ('109',
'Kenya'), ('110', 'Kiribati'), ('111', 'Kosovo'), ('112', 'Kuwait'),
('113', 'Kyrgyzstan'), ('114', 'Laos'), ('115', 'Latvia'), ('116',
'Lebanon'), ('117', 'Lesotho'), ('118', 'Liberia'), ('119', 'Libya'),
('120', 'Liechtenstein'), ('121', 'Lithuania'), ('122', 'Luxembourg'),
('123', 'Macao'), ('124', 'Madagascar'), ('125', 'Malawi'), ('126',
'Malaysia '), ('127', 'Maldives'), ('128', 'Mali'), ('129', 'Malta'),
('130', 'Marshall Islands'), ('131', 'Mauritania'), ('132',
'Mauritius'), ('133', 'Mayotte'), ('134', 'Mexico'), ('135',
'Micronesia'), ('136', 'Moldova'), ('137', 'Monaco'), ('138',
'Mongolia '), ('139', 'Montenegro'), ('140', 'Montserrat'), ('141',
'Morocco'), ('142', 'Mozambique'), ('143', 'Myanmar'), ('144',
'Nagorno-Karabakh'), ('145', 'Namibia'), ('146', 'Nauru'), ('147',
'Nepal'), ('148', 'Netherlands'), ('149', 'Netherlands Antilles'),
('150', 'New Caledonia'), ('151', 'New Zealand '), ('152',
'Nicaragua'), ('153', 'Niger'), ('154', 'Nigeria'), ('155', 'Niue'),
('156', 'Norfolk Island'), ('157', 'North Korea'), ('158', 'Northern
Cyprus'), ('159', 'Northern Mariana Islands'), ('160', 'Norway'),
('161', 'Oman'), ('162', 'Pakistan'), ('163', 'Palau'), ('164',
'Palestine'), ('165', 'Panama'), ('166', 'Papua New Guinea'), ('167',
'Paraguay'), ('168', 'Peru'), ('169', 'Philippines'), ('170',
'Pitcairn Islands'), ('171', 'Poland'), ('172', 'Portugal'), ('173',
'Pridnestrovie'), ('174', 'Puerto Rico'), ('175', 'Qatar'), ('176',
'Republic of Macedonia'), ('177', 'Romania '), ('178', 'Russia'),
('179', 'Rwanda'), ('180', 'Saint Helena'), ('181', 'Saint Kitts and
Nevis'), ('182', 'Saint Lucia '), ('183', 'Saint Pierre and
Miquelon'), ('184', 'Saint Vincent & the Grenadines'), ('185',
'Samoa'), ('186', 'San Marino'), ('187', 'São Tomé and Príncipe'),
('188', 'Saudi Arabia'), ('189', 'Senegal'), ('190', 'Serbia'),
('191', 'Seychelles'), ('192', 'Sierra Leone'), ('193', 'Singapore'),
('194', 'Slovakia'), ('195', 'Slovenia'), ('196', 'Solomon Islands '),
('197', 'Somalia'), ('198', 'Somaliland'), ('199', 'South Africa'),
('200', 'South Korea'), ('201', 'South Ossetia'), ('202', 'Spain'),
('203', 'Sri Lanka'), ('204', 'Sudan'), ('205', 'Suriname'), ('206',
'Svalbard'), ('207', 'Swaziland'), ('208', 'Sweden'), ('209',
'Switzerland'), ('210', 'Syria'), ('211', 'Taiwan'), ('212',
'Tajikistan'), ('213', 'Tanzania'), ('214', 'Thailand'), ('215',
'Timor-Leste'), ('216', 'Togo'), ('217', 'Tokelau'), ('218', 'Tonga'),
('219', 'Trinidad and Tobago'), ('220', 'Tristan da Cunha'), ('221',
'Tunisia'), ('222', 'Turkey'), ('223', 'Turkmenistan '), ('224',
'Turks and Caicos Islands'), ('225', 'Tuvalu '), ('226', 'Uganda'),
('227', 'Ukraine '), ('228', 'United Arab Emirates '), ('229', 'United
Kingdom'), ('230', 'United States'), ('231', 'Uruguay'), ('232',
'Uzbekistan'), ('233', 'Vanuatu'), ('234', 'Vatican City'), ('235',
'Venezuela'), ('236', 'Vietnam'), ('237', 'Virgin Islands, British'),
('238', 'Virgin Islands, United States'), ('239', 'Wallis and
Futuna'), ('240', 'Western Sahara'), ('241', 'Yemen'), ('242',
'Zambia'), ('243', 'Zimbabwe');

[Gordon Burditt]

I am trying to populate a table with the following insert query run=20
through phpmyadmin. When I attempt to run it phpmyadmin just freezes.=20
After a while "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds=20
exceeded in /web/myadmin/283/libraries/import.lib.php on line 19"=20
appears but no indication as why the command fails. Any advice most=20

PHP has limits on the execution (real) time of a web page. You
went over it. PHP doesn't know *WHY* it went over the limit, it
just knows that it did. You can raise the limit in php.ini (then
restart the web server), but that may be just masking the symptoms
rather than solving the problem.

This query doesn't look that big or complicated, although it might
have gotten mangled by all the equal-sign two zero crap at the end
of lines. Possibly something else has the table locked? The server
is very busy doing something else?

welcome.
INSERT INTO `countries` ( `id` , `country` ) VALUES ('1',=20
'Abkhazia'), ('2', 'Afghanistan'), ('3', 'Akrotiri and Dhekelia'),=20
('4', '=C5land'), ('5', 'Albania'), ('6', 'Algeria'), ('7', 'American=20
Samoa'), ('8', 'Andorra'), ('9', 'Angola'), ('10', 'Anguilla'), ('11',=20
'Antigua and Barbuda '), ('12', 'Argentina'), ('13', 'Armenia'),=20
('14', 'Aruba'), ('15', 'Ascension Island'), ('16', 'Australia'),=20
('17', 'Austria'), ('18', 'Azerbaijan'), ('19', 'Bahamas, The'),=20
('20', 'Bahrain'), ('21', 'Bangladesh'), ('22', 'Barbados '), ('23',=20
'Belarus'), ('24', 'Belgium'), ('25', 'Belize '), ('26', 'Benin'),=20
('27', 'Bermuda'), ('28', 'Bhutan'), ('29', 'Bolivia'), ('30', 'Bosnia=20
and Herzegovina'), ('31', 'Botswana'), ('32', 'Brazil'), ('33',=20
'Brunei'), ('34', 'Bulgaria'), ('35', 'Burkina Faso '), ('36',=20
'Burundi'), ('37', 'Cambodia'), ('38', 'Cameroon'), ('39', 'Canada'),=20
('40', 'Cape Verde'), ('41', 'Cayman Islands'), ('42', 'Central=20
African Republic'), ('43', 'Chad'), ('44', 'Chile'), ('45', 'China'),=20
('46', 'Christmas Island'), ('47', 'Cocos Islands'), ('48',=20
'Colombia'), ('49', 'Comoros'), ('50', 'Congo, Democratic Republic=20
of'), ('51', 'Congo, Republic of'), ('52', 'Cook Islands'), ('53',=20
'Costa Rica'), ('54', 'C=F4te d'Ivoire'), ('55', 'Croatia'), ('56',=20
'Cuba'), ('57', 'Cyprus'), ('58', 'Czech Republic'), ('59',=20
'Denmark'), ('60', 'Djibouti'), ('61', 'Dominica'), ('62', 'Dominican=20
Republic '), ('63', 'Ecuador'), ('64', 'Egypt'), ('65', 'El=20
Salvador'), ('66', 'Equatorial Guinea'), ('67', 'Eritrea'), ('68',=20
'Estonia'), ('69', 'Ethiopia'), ('70', 'Falkland Islands'), ('71',=20
'Faroe Islands'), ('72', 'Fiji'), ('73', 'Finland'), ('74', 'France'),=20
('75', 'French Polynesia'), ('76', 'Gabon'), ('77', 'Gambia, The'),=20
('78', 'Georgia'), ('79', 'Germany'), ('80', 'Ghana'), ('81',=20
'Gibraltar'), ('82', 'Greece'), ('83', 'Greenland'), ('84', 'Grenada=20
'), ('85', 'Guam'), ('86', 'Guatemala'), ('87', 'Guernsey'), ('88',=20
'Guinea'), ('89', 'Guinea-Bissau'), ('90', 'Guyana'), ('91', 'Haiti'),=20
('92', 'Honduras'), ('93', 'Hong Kong'), ('94', 'Hungary'), ('95',=20
'Iceland'), ('96', 'India'), ('97', 'Indonesia'), ('98', 'Iran'),=20
('99', 'Iraq'), ('100', 'Ireland'), ('101', 'Isle of Man'), ('102',=20
'Israel'), ('103', 'Italy'), ('104', 'Jamaica '), ('105', 'Japan '),=20
('106', 'Jersey'), ('107', 'Jordan'), ('108', 'Kazakhstan'), ('109',=20
'Kenya'), ('110', 'Kiribati'), ('111', 'Kosovo'), ('112', 'Kuwait'),=20
('113', 'Kyrgyzstan'), ('114', 'Laos'), ('115', 'Latvia'), ('116',=20
'Lebanon'), ('117', 'Lesotho'), ('118', 'Liberia'), ('119', 'Libya'),=20
('120', 'Liechtenstein'), ('121', 'Lithuania'), ('122', 'Luxembourg'),=20
('123', 'Macao'), ('124', 'Madagascar'), ('125', 'Malawi'), ('126',=20
'Malaysia '), ('127', 'Maldives'), ('128', 'Mali'), ('129', 'Malta'),=20
('130', 'Marshall Islands'), ('131', 'Mauritania'), ('132',=20
'Mauritius'), ('133', 'Mayotte'), ('134', 'Mexico'), ('135',=20
'Micronesia'), ('136', 'Moldova'), ('137', 'Monaco'), ('138',=20
'Mongolia '), ('139', 'Montenegro'), ('140', 'Montserrat'), ('141',=20
'Morocco'), ('142', 'Mozambique'), ('143', 'Myanmar'), ('144',=20
'Nagorno-Karabakh'), ('145', 'Namibia'), ('146', 'Nauru'), ('147',=20
'Nepal'), ('148', 'Netherlands'), ('149', 'Netherlands Antilles'),=20
('150', 'New Caledonia'), ('151', 'New Zealand '), ('152',=20
'Nicaragua'), ('153', 'Niger'), ('154', 'Nigeria'), ('155', 'Niue'),=20
('156', 'Norfolk Island'), ('157', 'North Korea'), ('158', 'Northern=20
Cyprus'), ('159', 'Northern Mariana Islands'), ('160', 'Norway'),=20
('161', 'Oman'), ('162', 'Pakistan'), ('163', 'Palau'), ('164',=20
'Palestine'), ('165', 'Panama'), ('166', 'Papua New Guinea'), ('167',=20
'Paraguay'), ('168', 'Peru'), ('169', 'Philippines'), ('170',=20
'Pitcairn Islands'), ('171', 'Poland'), ('172', 'Portugal'), ('173',=20
'Pridnestrovie'), ('174', 'Puerto Rico'), ('175', 'Qatar'), ('176',=20
'Republic of Macedonia'), ('177', 'Romania '), ('178', 'Russia'),=20
('179', 'Rwanda'), ('180', 'Saint Helena'), ('181', 'Saint Kitts and=20
Nevis'), ('182', 'Saint Lucia '), ('183', 'Saint Pierre and=20
Miquelon'), ('184', 'Saint Vincent & the Grenadines'), ('185',=20
'Samoa'), ('186', 'San Marino'), ('187', 'S=E3o Tom=E9 and Pr=EDncipe'),=20
('188', 'Saudi Arabia'), ('189', 'Senegal'), ('190', 'Serbia'),=20
('191', 'Seychelles'), ('192', 'Sierra Leone'), ('193', 'Singapore'),=20
('194', 'Slovakia'), ('195', 'Slovenia'), ('196', 'Solomon Islands '),=20
('197', 'Somalia'), ('198', 'Somaliland'), ('199', 'South Africa'),=20
('200', 'South Korea'), ('201', 'South Ossetia'), ('202', 'Spain'),=20
('203', 'Sri Lanka'), ('204', 'Sudan'), ('205', 'Suriname'), ('206',=20
'Svalbard'), ('207', 'Swaziland'), ('208', 'Sweden'), ('209',=20
'Switzerland'), ('210', 'Syria'), ('211', 'Taiwan'), ('212',=20
'Tajikistan'), ('213', 'Tanzania'), ('214', 'Thailand'), ('215',=20
'Timor-Leste'), ('216', 'Togo'), ('217', 'Tokelau'), ('218', 'Tonga'),=20
('219', 'Trinidad and Tobago'), ('220', 'Tristan da Cunha'), ('221',=20
'Tunisia'), ('222', 'Turkey'), ('223', 'Turkmenistan '), ('224',=20
'Turks and Caicos Islands'), ('225', 'Tuvalu '), ('226', 'Uganda'),=20
('227', 'Ukraine '), ('228', 'United Arab Emirates '), ('229', 'United=20
Kingdom'), ('230', 'United States'), ('231', 'Uruguay'), ('232',=20
'Uzbekistan'), ('233', 'Vanuatu'), ('234', 'Vatican City'), ('235',=20
'Venezuela'), ('236', 'Vietnam'), ('237', 'Virgin Islands, British'),=20
('238', 'Virgin Islands, United States'), ('239', 'Wallis and=20
Futuna'), ('240', 'Western Sahara'), ('241', 'Yemen'), ('242',=20
'Zambia'), ('243', 'Zimbabwe');

[Carl Pearson]

Post by a***@yahoo.com
I am trying to populate a table with the following insert query run
through phpmyadmin. When I attempt to run it phpmyadmin just freezes.
After a while "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds
exceeded in /web/myadmin/283/libraries/import.lib.php on line 19"
appears but no indication as why the command fails. Any advice most
welcome.
INSERT INTO `countries` ( `id` , `country` )

There are a couple of problems. First, don't use quotes for your table
& field names. Do this instead:

INSERT INTO countries (id, country)

A couple of other things:

Country ID's 4, 54 & 187 contain high ASCII values, if they don't import
properly edit those specific rows & paste in again. If it still doesn't
work check your collation.

Also, country ID 54 has a single quote within the name, so you may wish
to use double-quotes to enclose your values.

It was a combination of enclosing the table & field defs in quotes, and
having a single quote in country 54 along with using single quotes as
your delimiter, that caused the import to fail.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Post by a***@yahoo.com
I am trying to populate a table with the following insert query run
through phpmyadmin. When I attempt to run it phpmyadmin just freezes.
After a while "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds
exceeded in /web/myadmin/283/libraries/import.lib.php on line 19"
appears but no indication as why the command fails. Any advice most
welcome.
INSERT INTO `countries` ( `id` , `country` ) VALUES ('1',
'Abkhazia'), ('2', 'Afghanistan'), ('3', 'Akrotiri and Dhekelia'),
('4', 'Åland'), ('5', 'Albania'), ('6', 'Algeria'), ('7', 'American
Samoa'), ('8', 'Andorra'), ('9', 'Angola'), ('10', 'Anguilla'), ('11',
'Antigua and Barbuda '), ('12', 'Argentina'), ('13', 'Armenia'),
('14', 'Aruba'), ('15', 'Ascension Island'), ('16', 'Australia'),
('17', 'Austria'), ('18', 'Azerbaijan'), ('19', 'Bahamas, The'),
('20', 'Bahrain'), ('21', 'Bangladesh'), ('22', 'Barbados '), ('23',
'Belarus'), ('24', 'Belgium'), ('25', 'Belize '), ('26', 'Benin'),
('27', 'Bermuda'), ('28', 'Bhutan'), ('29', 'Bolivia'), ('30', 'Bosnia
and Herzegovina'), ('31', 'Botswana'), ('32', 'Brazil'), ('33',
'Brunei'), ('34', 'Bulgaria'), ('35', 'Burkina Faso '), ('36',
'Burundi'), ('37', 'Cambodia'), ('38', 'Cameroon'), ('39', 'Canada'),
('40', 'Cape Verde'), ('41', 'Cayman Islands'), ('42', 'Central
African Republic'), ('43', 'Chad'), ('44', 'Chile'), ('45', 'China'),
('46', 'Christmas Island'), ('47', 'Cocos Islands'), ('48',
'Colombia'), ('49', 'Comoros'), ('50', 'Congo, Democratic Republic
of'), ('51', 'Congo, Republic of'), ('52', 'Cook Islands'), ('53',
'Costa Rica'), ('54', 'Côte d'Ivoire'), ('55', 'Croatia'), ('56',
'Cuba'), ('57', 'Cyprus'), ('58', 'Czech Republic'), ('59',
'Denmark'), ('60', 'Djibouti'), ('61', 'Dominica'), ('62', 'Dominican
Republic '), ('63', 'Ecuador'), ('64', 'Egypt'), ('65', 'El
Salvador'), ('66', 'Equatorial Guinea'), ('67', 'Eritrea'), ('68',
'Estonia'), ('69', 'Ethiopia'), ('70', 'Falkland Islands'), ('71',
'Faroe Islands'), ('72', 'Fiji'), ('73', 'Finland'), ('74', 'France'),
('75', 'French Polynesia'), ('76', 'Gabon'), ('77', 'Gambia, The'),
('78', 'Georgia'), ('79', 'Germany'), ('80', 'Ghana'), ('81',
'Gibraltar'), ('82', 'Greece'), ('83', 'Greenland'), ('84', 'Grenada
'), ('85', 'Guam'), ('86', 'Guatemala'), ('87', 'Guernsey'), ('88',
'Guinea'), ('89', 'Guinea-Bissau'), ('90', 'Guyana'), ('91', 'Haiti'),
('92', 'Honduras'), ('93', 'Hong Kong'), ('94', 'Hungary'), ('95',
'Iceland'), ('96', 'India'), ('97', 'Indonesia'), ('98', 'Iran'),
('99', 'Iraq'), ('100', 'Ireland'), ('101', 'Isle of Man'), ('102',
'Israel'), ('103', 'Italy'), ('104', 'Jamaica '), ('105', 'Japan '),
('106', 'Jersey'), ('107', 'Jordan'), ('108', 'Kazakhstan'), ('109',
'Kenya'), ('110', 'Kiribati'), ('111', 'Kosovo'), ('112', 'Kuwait'),
('113', 'Kyrgyzstan'), ('114', 'Laos'), ('115', 'Latvia'), ('116',
'Lebanon'), ('117', 'Lesotho'), ('118', 'Liberia'), ('119', 'Libya'),
('120', 'Liechtenstein'), ('121', 'Lithuania'), ('122', 'Luxembourg'),
('123', 'Macao'), ('124', 'Madagascar'), ('125', 'Malawi'), ('126',
'Malaysia '), ('127', 'Maldives'), ('128', 'Mali'), ('129', 'Malta'),
('130', 'Marshall Islands'), ('131', 'Mauritania'), ('132',
'Mauritius'), ('133', 'Mayotte'), ('134', 'Mexico'), ('135',
'Micronesia'), ('136', 'Moldova'), ('137', 'Monaco'), ('138',
'Mongolia '), ('139', 'Montenegro'), ('140', 'Montserrat'), ('141',
'Morocco'), ('142', 'Mozambique'), ('143', 'Myanmar'), ('144',
'Nagorno-Karabakh'), ('145', 'Namibia'), ('146', 'Nauru'), ('147',
'Nepal'), ('148', 'Netherlands'), ('149', 'Netherlands Antilles'),
('150', 'New Caledonia'), ('151', 'New Zealand '), ('152',
'Nicaragua'), ('153', 'Niger'), ('154', 'Nigeria'), ('155', 'Niue'),
('156', 'Norfolk Island'), ('157', 'North Korea'), ('158', 'Northern
Cyprus'), ('159', 'Northern Mariana Islands'), ('160', 'Norway'),
('161', 'Oman'), ('162', 'Pakistan'), ('163', 'Palau'), ('164',
'Palestine'), ('165', 'Panama'), ('166', 'Papua New Guinea'), ('167',
'Paraguay'), ('168', 'Peru'), ('169', 'Philippines'), ('170',
'Pitcairn Islands'), ('171', 'Poland'), ('172', 'Portugal'), ('173',
'Pridnestrovie'), ('174', 'Puerto Rico'), ('175', 'Qatar'), ('176',
'Republic of Macedonia'), ('177', 'Romania '), ('178', 'Russia'),
('179', 'Rwanda'), ('180', 'Saint Helena'), ('181', 'Saint Kitts and
Nevis'), ('182', 'Saint Lucia '), ('183', 'Saint Pierre and
Miquelon'), ('184', 'Saint Vincent & the Grenadines'), ('185',
'Samoa'), ('186', 'San Marino'), ('187', 'São Tomé and Príncipe'),
('188', 'Saudi Arabia'), ('189', 'Senegal'), ('190', 'Serbia'),
('191', 'Seychelles'), ('192', 'Sierra Leone'), ('193', 'Singapore'),
('194', 'Slovakia'), ('195', 'Slovenia'), ('196', 'Solomon Islands '),
('197', 'Somalia'), ('198', 'Somaliland'), ('199', 'South Africa'),
('200', 'South Korea'), ('201', 'South Ossetia'), ('202', 'Spain'),
('203', 'Sri Lanka'), ('204', 'Sudan'), ('205', 'Suriname'), ('206',
'Svalbard'), ('207', 'Swaziland'), ('208', 'Sweden'), ('209',
'Switzerland'), ('210', 'Syria'), ('211', 'Taiwan'), ('212',
'Tajikistan'), ('213', 'Tanzania'), ('214', 'Thailand'), ('215',
'Timor-Leste'), ('216', 'Togo'), ('217', 'Tokelau'), ('218', 'Tonga'),
('219', 'Trinidad and Tobago'), ('220', 'Tristan da Cunha'), ('221',
'Tunisia'), ('222', 'Turkey'), ('223', 'Turkmenistan '), ('224',
'Turks and Caicos Islands'), ('225', 'Tuvalu '), ('226', 'Uganda'),
('227', 'Ukraine '), ('228', 'United Arab Emirates '), ('229', 'United
Kingdom'), ('230', 'United States'), ('231', 'Uruguay'), ('232',
'Uzbekistan'), ('233', 'Vanuatu'), ('234', 'Vatican City'), ('235',
'Venezuela'), ('236', 'Vietnam'), ('237', 'Virgin Islands, British'),
('238', 'Virgin Islands, United States'), ('239', 'Wallis and
Futuna'), ('240', 'Western Sahara'), ('241', 'Yemen'), ('242',
'Zambia'), ('243', 'Zimbabwe');

Despite other comments, the backticks around your table and column names
are fine. They are valid for MySQL.

If `id` is a numeric value, you should not have quotes around the
numeric values, i.e. you should have (1, 'Abkhazia').

Also as noted, the entry with value 54 has a single quote in it.
Enclosing the values within double quotes is not correct, however - that
is invalid SQL (strings must be enclosed by single quotes).

The way to correct this is to have two single quotes in the string, i.e.
'Côte d''Ivoire'

The non-ASCII characters (i.e. 'Åland') may or may not be a problem - it
depends on the table definition.

I'm not sure why this would give a timeout error, though. It shouldn't
take long for it to be inserted. I'd recommend you break it up into
smaller chunks and see what happens. You should be able to determine if
there are other errors in your SQL that we've missed.

[Carl Pearson]

Post by Jerry Stuckle
Despite other comments, the backticks around your table and column names
are fine. They are valid for MySQL.
If `id` is a numeric value, you should not have quotes around the
numeric values, i.e. you should have (1, 'Abkhazia').
Also as noted, the entry with value 54 has a single quote in it.
Enclosing the values within double quotes is not correct, however - that
is invalid SQL (strings must be enclosed by single quotes).
The way to correct this is to have two single quotes in the string, i.e.
'Côte d''Ivoire'
The non-ASCII characters (i.e. 'Åland') may or may not be a problem - it
depends on the table definition.
I'm not sure why this would give a timeout error, though. It shouldn't
take long for it to be inserted. I'd recommend you break it up into
smaller chunks and see what happens. You should be able to determine if
there are other errors in your SQL that we've missed.

This does not seem to be accurate. At least as far back as MySQL
version 3.23, double-quotes are most certainly acceptable for enclosing
strings. Section 9.1.1 of the manual details this:

A string is a sequence of bytes or characters, enclosed within either
single quote (‘'’) or double quote (‘"’) characters.

Did fail to mention previously that the quotes as shown in the original
post were ASCII 60's (96 in decimal), not 27's (decimal 39). That also
caused my attempt at importing to fail.

So far as surrounding table names in the insert statement with quotes, I
couldn't find it in the manual, and it bombed when I tried it. Am
curious where you got this info.

And yes, the collation will definitely be an issue. Defining the
'country' column as utf8_general_ci, the records 4, 54 & 187 did not
import the country name. Set to ASCII, the high ascii chars imported as
question marks (Hex code 3F, ASCII 63), but the remainder of the string
came in OK.

[Sanders Kaufman]

Post by Carl Pearson
This does not seem to be accurate. At least as far back as MySQL
version 3.23, double-quotes are most certainly acceptable for enclosing

Yeah, it is. I recently lost an argument I was very confident
about - that double-quotes is actually the ANSI standard. I got
so used to using double-quotes, I forgot they were the wrong way
to do strings.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Post by Carl Pearson
This does not seem to be accurate. At least as far back as MySQL
version 3.23, double-quotes are most certainly acceptable for

Yeah, it is. I recently lost an argument I was very confident about -
that double-quotes is actually the ANSI standard. I got so used to
using double-quotes, I forgot they were the wrong way to do strings.

It may. But I use standard SQL so I have less to change should I need
to go to a different database. And standard SQL is to use single quotes
around non-numeric values.

[Carl Pearson]

Post by Carl Pearson
This does not seem to be accurate. At least as far back as MySQL
version 3.23, double-quotes are most certainly acceptable for

Yeah, it is. I recently lost an argument I was very confident about -
that double-quotes is actually the ANSI standard. I got so used to
using double-quotes, I forgot they were the wrong way to do strings.

Well, as this is a mySQL list, and the manual says strings may be
surrounded by single or double quotes, I'd say they are quite legal.

This is all moot anyway, as I was incorrectly equating table defs
surrounded by quotes to be strings, which they are not.

So far as ANSI vs MySQL, You're talking style here, not syntax. "Wrong
way" has no meaning if the statement as run produces valid output.

BTW, found the real problem in the original post. Darn those ticks!

[Sanders Kaufman]

Post by Carl Pearson
Well, as this is a mySQL list, and the manual says strings may be
surrounded by single or double quotes, I'd say they are quite legal.

It also shows how you can setup MySQL to not make that mistake.

The double-quotes are not a way to enclose strings.
They are a way MySQL forgives users who make mistakes.

Post by Carl Pearson
So far as ANSI vs MySQL, You're talking style here, not syntax. "Wrong
way" has no meaning if the statement as run produces valid output.

Yah - but then some fellow comes along and sets MySQL to enforce
standards and suddenly you find that your Wrong Way doesn't work
anymore.

[Carl Pearson]

Post by Sanders Kaufman

Post by Carl Pearson
Well, as this is a mySQL list, and the manual says strings may be
surrounded by single or double quotes, I'd say they are quite legal.

It also shows how you can setup MySQL to not make that mistake.
The double-quotes are not a way to enclose strings.
They are a way MySQL forgives users who make mistakes.

Uhm, the manual says it's OK. So, it's OK. ANSI & MySQL specs are
different, one must respect & adapt to what the respective authors
allow. It is by definition not a "mistake" if you follow the allowed
syntax!

I understand what you're trying to say, that one should not write
anything but strict ANSI SQL code. Alas for your attitude, the authors
of MySQL must have had a different idea.

Post by Sanders Kaufman

Post by Carl Pearson
So far as ANSI vs MySQL, You're talking style here, not syntax.
"Wrong way" has no meaning if the statement as run produces valid output.

Yah - but then some fellow comes along and sets MySQL to enforce
standards and suddenly you find that your Wrong Way doesn't work anymore.

So he turns the standards back off & continues on his merry way.

Again, it matters not one whit that ANSI does not allow the
double-quote, but MySQL does. This is not an ANSI SQL list; it simply
does not matter if double-quotes are used to enclose strings in MySQL,
as the language allows them.

Let's say the new guy inherits some code, decides to change modes, and
it breaks the code. Happens all the time.

At this point, he has three choices:

Come up to speed with what the (to him) new dialect.

Grab his favorite regex-friendly text editor & get to work.

Find a new job.


Again, MySQL says double-quotes are OK for strings. It's irrelevant
that for ANSI, they're not. Yes, it is that simple!

Geez!

[Jerry Stuckle]

Post by Carl Pearson

Post by Jerry Stuckle
Despite other comments, the backticks around your table and column
names are fine. They are valid for MySQL.
If `id` is a numeric value, you should not have quotes around the
numeric values, i.e. you should have (1, 'Abkhazia').
Also as noted, the entry with value 54 has a single quote in it.
Enclosing the values within double quotes is not correct, however -
that is invalid SQL (strings must be enclosed by single quotes).
The way to correct this is to have two single quotes in the string,
i.e. 'Côte d''Ivoire'
The non-ASCII characters (i.e. 'Åland') may or may not be a problem -
it depends on the table definition.
I'm not sure why this would give a timeout error, though. It
shouldn't take long for it to be inserted. I'd recommend you break it
up into smaller chunks and see what happens. You should be able to
determine if there are other errors in your SQL that we've missed.

This does not seem to be accurate. At least as far back as MySQL
version 3.23, double-quotes are most certainly acceptable for enclosing

The SQL standard is to enclose all strings with single quotes.

Post by Carl Pearson
A string is a sequence of bytes or characters, enclosed within
either single quote (‘'’) or double quote (‘"’) characters.
Did fail to mention previously that the quotes as shown in the original
post were ASCII 60's (96 in decimal), not 27's (decimal 39). That also
caused my attempt at importing to fail.

The quotes around the table and column names were ASCII 96 decimal - a
backtick, which is correct for MySQL. The ones around the values were
ASCII 39 decimal, which is again correct.

Post by Carl Pearson
So far as surrounding table names in the insert statement with quotes, I
couldn't find it in the manual, and it bombed when I tried it. Am
curious where you got this info.

It requires back ticks. Check the manual. It's there, very
prominently. And has been since at least version 3.x.

Post by Carl Pearson
And yes, the collation will definitely be an issue. Defining the
'country' column as utf8_general_ci, the records 4, 54 & 187 did not
import the country name. Set to ASCII, the high ascii chars imported as
question marks (Hex code 3F, ASCII 63), but the remainder of the string
came in OK.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Post by Jerry Stuckle

Post by Carl Pearson
So far as surrounding table names in the insert statement with quotes,
I couldn't find it in the manual, and it bombed when I tried it. Am
curious where you got this info.

It requires back ticks. Check the manual. It's there, very
prominently. And has been since at least version 3.x.

Allow me to clarify this. If you're going to enclose table and/or
column names, they must be back ticks. And back ticks are required if
you're using MySQL reserved words as column or table names.

[Carl Pearson]

Post by Jerry Stuckle

Post by Jerry Stuckle

Post by Carl Pearson
So far as surrounding table names in the insert statement with
quotes, I couldn't find it in the manual, and it bombed when I tried
it. Am curious where you got this info.

It requires back ticks. Check the manual. It's there, very
prominently. And has been since at least version 3.x.

Time to put this to rest.

At least your statement above is *half* right. I was looking at the
wrong section, 9.1.1 (which defines what a string can be), not 9.2
(which defines what table, index, column & alias names can be).

But 9.2 does also state:
An identifier may be quoted or unquoted.

The only exception would be using reserved words, but 'id' and
'countries' are not on that list.

Still, saying that surrounding table names with quotes is 'required' is
not true.

Post by Jerry Stuckle
Allow me to clarify this. If you're going to enclose table and/or
column names, they must be back ticks. And back ticks are required if
you're using MySQL reserved words as column or table names.

Well, that's certainly what the manual says, but it's not the way it's
working in practice.

Locally am on 5.0.27-community, haven't tried any on a web host.

The insert bombed for me until I took out any form of quoting from the
table & column names. i.e.,

Then I took another look at the original post.

The entire problem was not as I originally stated, having the table &
field defs in quotes.

It was actually that back ticks were *also used for the data*.

So, to re-cap:
Backticks only for enclosing table & field names, NOT data!
Single OR double quotes around data are OK - even numbers!

This may not be the *preferred* way, but it's legal syntax.

Now, tiny rant here...

Yes, you are correct that backticks are allowed to identify table names,
and I thank you for getting me to look a little harder to discover that.

But, this is a MySQL list, NOT an ANSI SQL list, and double-quotes -
whether or not you disagree with using them - are valid syntax in MySQL.

Point is, even though I had a couple of facts about table defs wrong, I
still got the insert to work! You could have done the same, or at least
looked a little harder at the problem, rather than just dismiss my
answer because it had it's own syntax error.

[Gordon Burditt]

Post by Carl Pearson
At least your statement above is *half* right. I was looking at the
wrong section, 9.1.1 (which defines what a string can be), not 9.2
(which defines what table, index, column & alias names can be).
An identifier may be quoted or unquoted.
The only exception would be using reserved words, but 'id' and
'countries' are not on that list.
Still, saying that surrounding table names with quotes is 'required' is
not true.

There are lots more places than reserved words that require ``
around table names. For example, table names containing spaces.
Or table names that look like numbers. Or table names containing
punctuation.

[Axel Schwenke]

Carl Pearson <***@gmail.com> wrote:
...

Post by Carl Pearson
Backticks only for enclosing table & field names, NOT data!
Single OR double quotes around data are OK - even numbers!
This may not be the *preferred* way, but it's legal syntax.
Now, tiny rant here...
Yes, you are correct that backticks are allowed to identify table names,
and I thank you for getting me to look a little harder to discover that.
But, this is a MySQL list, NOT an ANSI SQL list, and double-quotes -
whether or not you disagree with using them - are valid syntax in MySQL.

Careful!

Beginning with 5.0 MySQL knows of the so-called server SQL mode. If you
have ANSI_QUOTES in effect, MySQL uses ANSI style quoting rules (string
literals using single quotes and identifiers using double quotes).

Same goes for escaping: traditionally MySQL uses the backslash to
escape the quote character in a string literal. i.e. 'L\'Oreal'. Now
you can have SQL mode NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES, making the backslash an
ordinary character. To escape the quote character, you have to double
it now: 'L''Oreal'.

So whenever you refer to "correct" quoting in MySQL, make sure to
mention the SQL mode in use.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html


XL
--
Axel Schwenke, Support Engineer, MySQL AB

Online User Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/
MySQL User Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/

[Carl Pearson]

Post by Axel Schwenke
Careful!
Beginning with 5.0 MySQL knows of the so-called server SQL mode. If you
have ANSI_QUOTES in effect, MySQL uses ANSI style quoting rules (string
literals using single quotes and identifiers using double quotes).

Thanks for that info, I'd been thinking there may have been some
difference between the original poster's setup & mine, but never said as
much.

Did all my testing for this little exercise on my home box, like I said
5.0.27-community, with the default of no mode set.

Also, an apology to Mr. Stuckle, was not looking closely enough at the
data in the original post, it was normal single quotes, not backticks.

So, still confusing why backticking the table & field names at the
beginning of the INSERT made it bomb out. Escaping the single quote
within country 54 was needed, sure, but any attempt at backticking
either "countries", "id", or "country" in

INSERT INTO countries (id,country) VALUES

caused error 1064 (Syntax). This was either via CLI, or phpMyAdmin.

Go figure. The only other variable I can see is that I touch-type in
Dvorak, but ASCII 96 (decimal) still produces the backtick like it's
supposed to.

Perhaps it's a M$ plot! ;)

(Of course, now that I've said that, suddenly the insert is working with
the backticks. So perhaps the whole problem really was only not escaping
the single quote within country 54, but I swear I tried it 6 ways to
Sunday & the backticks weren't working. Very confusing!)