ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use

There are two different types of quotation marks in MySQL. You need to use ` for column names and ' for strings. Since you have used ' for the filename column the query parser got confused. Either remove the quotation marks around all column names, or change 'filename' to `filename`. Then it should work.

Don't quote the column filename

mysql> INSERT INTO risks (status, subject, reference_id, location, category, team,    technology, owner, manager, assessment, notes,filename) 
VALUES ('san', 'ss', 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 'sment', 'notes','santu');

This Error comes due to same table exist in 2 database like you have a database for project1 and in which you have table emp and again you have another database like project2 and in which you have table emp then when you try to insert something inside the database with-out your database name then you will get an error like about

Solution for that when you use mysql query then also mention database name along with table name.

OR

Don't Use Reserved key words like KEY as column name