Is name a reserved word in MySQL?

Question

Can I name a column name in my mysql tables?

Answer 1

Just a word of caution here. As field name name is fine.

However in stored procedures name as variable does something else.

Consider the following procedure. When I called this procedure it always would alter the first record in my config database. Once I renamed the variable named name to something else, things worked fine.

PROCEDURE `updateConfig`(IN name VARCHAR(255), IN val VARCHAR(255))
BEGIN
UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY `config`
  SET `value`=val
  WHERE `name` = name
  LIMIT 1;
END