Getting syntax error in a Sql query

Question

Hello everyone i am trying to compare a user input id with a db id but when i execute the query i get syntax error what am i doing wrong?

 sql = "SELECT individual.id " 
                + "FROM individual"
                + "WHERE individual.id = ? ";
       PreparedStatement pst = con.prepareStatement(sql);
       pst.setInt(1, input);

    while(rs.next()){
        int Iid = rs.getInt("id");
        System.out.println(Iid);
    }

Error message

Exception in thread "main" com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: 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 '.id = ?' at line 1
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:408)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:386)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1053)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4120)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4052)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2503)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2664)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2788)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2738)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeQuery(StatementImpl.java:1617)

A bit far fetched, but what do you get if you replace "FROM individual" with "FROM individual "? — npinti
– npinti, Commented Dec 30, 2015 at 9:19
This code does not throw this exception. You aren't calling executeQuery() anywhere, as shown in the stack trace. — user207421
– user207421, Commented Dec 30, 2015 at 10:06

Jan · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-30 09:21:23Z

4

+ "FROM individual" + "WHERE individ

Will be resolved to

  FROM individualWHERE individ...

Add spaces to your string and you should be fine

answered Dec 30, 2015 at 9:21

Jan

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