Title: SQL Syntax error message
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# SQL Syntax error message

 *  Resolved [mentalist2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mentalist2009/)
 * (@mentalist2009)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-message-1/)
 * when activated, we get this error message:
 * 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 ‘TYPE=MyISAM’ at line 9
   on line: 1471
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 *  Plugin Author [csmicfool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csmicfool/)
 * (@csmicfool)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-message-1/#post-6573813)
 * Hi Mental,
 * I’m looking in to this now but that line number does not exist in my code. Can
   you please provide a full error message – does it provide a filename where the
   error occurs?
 *  Thread Starter [mentalist2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mentalist2009/)
 * (@mentalist2009)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-message-1/#post-6573879)
 * That was the full message. Nothing else. That’s the message I’d get after activating
   the plug-in. Very strange. The widget seems to work anyway, at the front end.
 *  Plugin Author [csmicfool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csmicfool/)
 * (@csmicfool)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-message-1/#post-6573880)
 * Are you using “WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plug-in” by any chance?
 * Here is an example where it was a known issue: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-plugin-2?replies=6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-plugin-2?replies=6)
 * The error message itself is unrelated to my plugin but it would seem that some
   additional setup is conflicting. Can you please let me know if you have that 
   other plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [mentalist2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mentalist2009/)
 * (@mentalist2009)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-message-1/#post-6573909)
 * That is one of the plug-ins installed, yes. After I created this support ticket,
   I upgraded to 4.3.1 to see if maybe it was version conflict, but same thing.
 *  Plugin Author [csmicfool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csmicfool/)
 * (@csmicfool)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-message-1/#post-6573911)
 * Can you please disable or uninstall “WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plug-in”. It
   is causing a conflict. Other plugins are similarly affected.
 * The issue appears to be that some plugins use character encoding which is not
   being properly handled properly by the automatic upgrade plugin. This plugin 
   uses some UTF-8 characters for currency symbols.
 * I do not recommend using the automatic upgrade plugin because it has features
   which can potentially lead to damage or compromise of your database and WP install.
   My suggestion is to uninstall it. Most (not all) of the features it provides 
   can be done using the wp-config.php file. Here’s some relevant documentation:
   [https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates](https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates)
 * Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do on my end to prevent this conflict as
   it’s caused by a bug within an unrelated plugin. My recommendation is to uninstall
   the 3rd party plugin and use the documentation above to customize your update
   behavior.
 *  Plugin Author [csmicfool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csmicfool/)
 * (@csmicfool)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-syntax-error-message-1/#post-6573998)
 * Mentalist,
 * I’m going to mark this resolved for now since it’s a conflict outside of my control.
   If you need any further help with a workaround, please let me know.

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