From: Martijn Tonies Date: April 9 2008 11:17am Subject: Re: We have just moved to a new web server where we arerunningmysql version: 5.0.45 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/212168 Message-Id: <012001c89a33$3e4b9710$9902a8c0@martijnws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Thanks for the answer but that's not it. It was my typo. I am really updating and selecting from the same table. Perhaps "not it" either, but strings should be in single quotes, not double quotes. Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - development tool for MySQL, and more! Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com