Hi, here's what I've got so far:

create table section (
    section_id   int(9) unsigned not null,
    section_name varchar(32),
    created      datetime default '0000-00-00 00:00:00' not null,
    primary key (section_id)
);    

create table inventory_items (
    item_id     int(9) unsigned not null auto_increment,
    section_id  int(9) unsigned,
    item_name   varchar(32) not null,
    description varchar(255),
    photo_name  varchar(255),
    created     datetime default '0000-00-00 00:00:00' not null,
    modified    datetime default '0000-00-00 00:00:00' not null,
    primary key (item_id),
);

create table item_price (
    item_id    int(9) unsigned not null auto_increment,
    price      decimal(11, 2),
    sale_price decimal(11, 2),
    valid_from datetime not null,
    valid_to   datetime not null,
    primary key (item_id),
);
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I'm currently receiving an error "ERROR 1064 at line 8: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')' at line 10." I'm running this from a file like so: mysql inventory < inventory.sql -u username -p I was receiving an error that said the same but at line 6 before, I removed the comma after primary key and it seemed to change the error - could this have something to do with whitespace/comma placement? I noticed in your example you placed the preceeding line's comma before the next statement.

Thanks! :)