Title: Installation – DB Syntax error – Missing tablenames
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installation – DB Syntax error – Missing tablenames

 *  [larzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larzi/)
 * (@larzi)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-db-syntax-error-missing-tablenames/)
 * Hi,
 * I am trying to get my first WordPress installation up and running, but its proving
   to be way more frustrating that I had hoped.
 * I have created a DB, created a DB user and granted the user all access to the
   database.
 * When I try to run the install.php, it goes through the first step, but at the
   second step, I get a lot of DB syntax errors, like this:
 * “
 * 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‘(
   umeta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, user_id big]
    CREATE TABLE ( umeta_id
   bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default ‘0’, 
   meta_key varchar(255) default NULL, meta_value longtext, PRIMARY KEY (umeta_id),
   KEY user_id (user_id), KEY meta_key (meta_key) ) “
 * Its clear that the SQL statements are missing the tablename. If I run the SQL
   statements manually and add a table name, the syntax is fine.
 * The table names seems to be set in wp-settings.php – but why arent they loaded?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-db-syntax-error-missing-tablenames/#post-421248)
 * That’s strange… where did you get the file, and how are you getting it to the
   website?
    Does a new download from here cause the same thing?
 *  Thread Starter [larzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larzi/)
 * (@larzi)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-db-syntax-error-missing-tablenames/#post-421270)
 * Hi,
 * I had downloaded the 2.03 version from this site.
 * However, I tried to re-download the file, and ran the installation once more,
   and now it works.
 * Strange, but thanks for the suggestion.

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 * [syntaxerror](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntaxerror/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [larzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larzi/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-db-syntax-error-missing-tablenames/#post-421270)
 * Status: not resolved

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