Keyboard configuration woes

Hi folks

What's the difference between these 2 commands -- one entered manually gives an error and the other pasted from the web is successful. !!!!!



?????????

I am running this Arch Linux system as a VM on HYPER-V on W11 rs build.

Keyboard woes I've never had before !!!! and I have used a lot of different ones including cyrllic and the worst on the planet -- that diabolical French AZERTY system. !!

Mind you even on totally modest hardware and on a VM MariaDB really works at greased lighting speed -- forget Ms Access -- even though most of the packages in Ms Office are still without equal anywhere.

E.g (it's a TEST database so no real personnel data here -- complies with Isl / EU Data protection acts),





Even with VM and using a GUI (phpmyadmin) on a modest laptop the speed of the query beats almost anything else and it's easy to export / import tables etc to / from EXCEL spreadsheets if required.

Many don't realize the real value of using these sorts of databases (all FREE) for even modest projects !!!

-- MariaDB also runs on Windows too BTW but I'm happy with the VM.

Cheers
jimbo

It seems the script entered command is being issued from within the mysql directory, whereas the manual/ copied one is not. I am not familiar with Linux but could that be a pathing or permissions issue?