Title: Database error message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Database error message

 *  [bsingh20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bsingh20/)
 * (@bsingh20)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-message-1/)
 * I am getting the following error appearing in the sidebar:
 * WordPress database 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”
   at line 1]
    SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM
 * Any ideas?
 * Regards,

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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 * Last reply from: [bsingh20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bsingh20/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-message-1/)
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