How to select a column name with a space in MySQL

I am working on a project where another developer created a table with column names like 'Business Name'. That is a space between two words. If I run a SELECT statement with 'Business Name' it says there is no column with name 'Business'.

How can I solve this problem?

Generally the first step is to not do that in the first place, but if this is already done, then you need to resort to properly quoting your column names:

SELECT `Business Name` FROM annoying_table

Usually these sorts of things are created by people who have used something like Microsoft Access and always use a GUI to do their thing.

If double quotes does not work , try including the string within square brackets.

For eg:

SELECT "Business Name","Other Name" FROM your_Table

can be changed as

SELECT [Business Name],[Other Name] FROM your_Table

You need to use backtick instead of single quotes:

Single quote - 'Business Name' - Wrong

Backtick - `Business Name` - Correct

To each his own but the right way to code this is to rename the columns inserting underscore so there are no gaps. This will ensure zero errors when coding. When printing the column names for public display you could search-and-replace to replace the underscore with a space.

I got here with an MS Access problem.

Backticks are good for MySQL, but they create weird errors, like "Invalid Query Name: Query1" in MS Access, for MS Access only, use square brackets:

It should look like this

SELECT Customer.[Customer ID], Customer.[Full Name] ...

I think double quotes works too:

SELECT "Business Name","Other Name" FROM your_Table

But I only tested on SQL Server NOT mySQL in case someone work with MS SQL Server.