From: Dan Nelson
Date: January 26 2003 3:26am
Subject: Re: upgrade mySQL
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In the last episode (Jan 25), pazenko said:
>     I'm currently upgrading mySQL v3.23 to mySQL v4.0, the installation of
> v4.0 was a success,I tried to execute mysql_fix_privilege_tables
>     c:\mysql\bin>mysql -e mysql_fix_privilege_tables
> but i keep on getting the error:
> 
>     ERROR 1064 at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the
> manual that corresponds to your mySQL server version for the right syntax to
> use near 'mysql_fix_privilege_tables' at line 1
> 
> what is the right way of running this script?

I don't know if there's a windows version if it.  It's a shell script. 
If you have cygwin installed, try running

"sh mysql_fix_privilege_tables"

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped