How do you avoid column name conflicts?

Question

I was recently assigned a task of creating an auction system. During my work, I met numerous occasions where my SQL queries that contained joins failed to execute due to amb

Answer 1

I've faced with 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 'rank

after executing the following query:

insert into my_table (rank) values (1);

Because rank column name clashes with sql keyword rank.

SOLUTION:

I've added back quotes to rank column name and problem was solved:

insert into my_table (`rank`) values (1);

Another way to solve the problem is to use table name instead of back quotes:

insert into my_table (my_table.rank) values (1);