Title: Table creation error during install
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Table creation error during install

 *  [foofoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foofoo/)
 * (@foofoo)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-creation-error-during-install/)
 * I get a bunch of these errors when I run install. I have the user, psw, host,
   and database all set correctly. I used MySQL Administrator to create a Schema
   called “wordpress.” Didn’t see anywhere where I had to set permissions — I’m 
   testing this with the MySQL root user account so it should have full perms already.
 * Any idea why these errors occur in Step 2 ?
 * WordPress database error: [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‘/
   wp-admin_categories ( cat_ID int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, cat_name varch’ 
   at line 1]
    CREATE TABLE wp_/wp-admin_categories ( cat_ID int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
   cat_name varchar(55) NOT NULL default ”, category_nicename varchar(200) NOT NULL
   default ”, category_description text NOT NULL, category_parent int(4) NOT NULL
   default ‘0’, PRIMARY KEY (cat_ID), UNIQUE KEY cat_name (cat_name), KEY category_nicename(
   category_nicename) )

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 *  [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/)
 * (@coldforged)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-creation-error-during-install/#post-164440)
 * Is it possible you have a backslash in your table prefix declaration in wp-config.
   php?

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