Syntax error: WITH is not valid input in this position

Question

So I have this similar request

    WITH customers_in_usa AS (
        SELECT 
           customerName, state
        FROM
           customers
        WHERE
         


        

Answer 1

MySQL doesn't support common table expressions and WITH syntax until version 8.0.1.

Version 8.0 is still not production-ready as I write this (but it's in Release Candidate status, so it'll be GA pretty soon).

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Update: MySQL 8.0 released its first GA version 8.0.11 on 2018-04-19.