From: Dan Nelson
Date: June 9 2004 7:03pm
Subject: Re: inserting works fine but I cant update.
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In the last episode (Jun 09), Blake Schroeder said:
> Query
> UPDATE table SET 1 = '1' WHERE id = '1'
> 
> |#1064 - 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 '1  =  '1' WHERE id =  '1'' at line 1

Mysql is seeing the 1 as a literal number 1.  You can force it to be a
column/table name by putting backtics around it: `1`.  You will
probably be happier if you change the column names to something that
doesn't require special treatment, though, like "col1" .. "col28".

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	Dan Nelson
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