By cgsmith
I receive this exception anytime when trying to add a comment on a database column or table:
add column label_data mediumtext NULL DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Shipping labels file encoded in base64' to table {{%orders}} ...Exception: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 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 'COMMENT 'Shipping labels file encoded in base64'' at line 1
It this because of a user permission issue on the hosted MySQL?
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Hi @cgsmith,
MySQL comments are allowed on MySQL managed database, The error is due to a syntax error and it is not a permission issue; you can run below alter SQL statement to add column label_data with COMMENT.
alter table test add column label_data mediumtext NULL DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Shipping labels file encoded in base64';
I hope this helps!
Regards, Rajkishore
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