Title: WordPress database error – SQL syntax
Last modified: January 28, 2023

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# WordPress database error – SQL syntax

 *  Resolved [Saxman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/konjfuchie/)
 * (@konjfuchie)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-sql-syntax-3/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m getting recently this error, after using Database Optimizer ?
 * > [28-Jan-2023 16:10:18 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your
   > SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version
   > for the right syntax to use near ‘LEFT JOIN `wp_posts`
   > ON `wp_posts`.ID = `
   > wp_postmeta`.post_idWHERE…’ at line 3 for query DELETE FROM`wp_postmeta`LEFT
   > JOIN `wp_posts`ON `wp_posts`.ID = `wp_postmeta`.post_idWHERE `wp_posts`.post_type
   > = ‘revision’ made by require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’),
   > require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), do_action(‘init’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook-
   > >apply_filters, LiteSpeed\Core->after_user_init, LiteSpeed\Core->proceed_action,
   > LiteSpeed\Router->handler, LiteSpeed\DB_Optm->handler, LiteSpeed\DB_Optm->_db_clean
 * what seems to be the problem, could you help me with this, please
 * regards

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 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-sql-syntax-3/#post-16417867)
 * may I know what’s your database software/version ?
 *  Thread Starter [Saxman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/konjfuchie/)
 * (@konjfuchie)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-sql-syntax-3/#post-16417971)
 * MySQL Version: 10.3.37-MariaDB
 *  [usabe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/usabe/)
 * (@usabe)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-sql-syntax-3/#post-16419801)
 * Hi [@konjfuchie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/konjfuchie/)
 * Please open a ticket by emailing to [support@litespeedtech.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-sql-syntax-3/support@litespeedtech.com?output_format=md).
   Remember to reference this topic and ask to assign your ticket to Abe. We will
   need to check further into the database to figure this out.

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 * [Database Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-error/)
 * [SQL syntax](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql-syntax/)
 * [syntax error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntax-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [usabe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/usabe/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-sql-syntax-3/#post-16419801)
 * Status: resolved