Right, I'm slowly getting to grips with this.  So far, I've discovered that 
table names/column names should be enclosed in back ticks not double quote 
characters and that SQLite AUTOINCREMENT =  mySQL AUTO_INCREMENT.  Weems like 
all my tables are being created once I make those changes.  Next step will be 
try INSERTing data. 

Pete Haworth






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On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> I may have mentioned in passing in another post, I use MySQLWorkbench. If you 
> copy/paste the sequel to create the table into the query browser, you will 
> get a red X to the left of the offending line, and the part that is wrong 
> will be in another color than the "good" sql. It's pretty easy to see or 
> determine at that point what the problem is. I would think just about any SQL 
> tool would have some kind of feature like this. 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Bob, that's a good start.  I'll search for the post with the link to 
>> differences.
>> 
>> I hope you're right that my queries will all still work fine.  tRight now, 
>> I'm struggling to get the database created.  I was hoping I could export the 
>> db structure using the Firefox SQLite manager and then import the resulting 
>> file with the SequelPro Import feature but I get a host of syntax error 
>> messages when I do the import.  The error messages are pretty useless 
>> because they are just generalised messages like"Syntax error near xyz, refer 
>> to your mySQL manual".  I think almost all of them are something to with 
>> either PRIMARY KEY or foreign key definitions specified with the REFERENCES 
>> keyword but haven't tracked down just what the problem is yet.
>> 
>> Pete Haworth
>> 
> 
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