# Is this a Percona Bug - rejects the fieldname "virtual" **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona Server for MySQL 5.7\ **Tags:** mysql, percona\ **Created:** [July 11, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-this-a-percona-bug-rejects-the-fieldname-virtual/7768 "2020-07-11T03:45:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hder](https://forums.percona.com/u/hder)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-this-a-percona-bug-rejects-the-fieldname-virtual/7768/1 "2020-07-11T03:45:51Z")
I have a simple query “ **_SELECT virtual FROM groups_** ”. Works in my Windows/Xampp/PHP7/MySQL (5.6) local setup, but in Percona (5.7) on Bluehost, but it rejects the field word “virtual”. I have to use the “ **_SELECT groups.virtual AS virtualx FROM groups_** ” to make it work.  This is through PHPMyAdmin interface.  The error it provides is - An expression was expected. (near virtual)   Unrecognized keyword. (near virtual).  Can anyone confirm this is a bug in Percona or provide an explanation?  I can’t make sense of it otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![daniil.bazhenov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/daniil.bazhenov/32/62_2.png) [@daniil.bazhenov](https://forums.percona.com/u/daniil.bazhenov)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-this-a-percona-bug-rejects-the-fieldname-virtual/7768/2 "2020-07-11T09:33:57Z")
Dear @hder VIRTUAL was added as reserved keyword in MySQL 5.7 [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/keywords.html#keywords-5-7-detailed-V](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/keywords.html#keywords-5-7-detailed-V "Link: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/keywords.html#keywords-5-7-detailed-V") I would avoid using keywords as column names but if you have you you can refer to them by using backticks ```auto select `virtual' from groups; should work. ```