You can't just change the name without changing (or stating) the type. ALTER TABLE actors CHANGE director_id actos_id varchar(96) default NULL;
J.R. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sargent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:10 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; Hi All, gee I really hate bugging you all for this. I looked at this page, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/alter-table.html which has this, To change column |a| from |INTEGER| to |TINYINT NOT NULL| (leaving the name the same), and to change column |b| from |CHAR(10)| to |CHAR(20)| as well as renaming it from |b| to |c|: ALTER TABLE t2 MODIFY a TINYINT NOT NULL, CHANGE b c CHAR(20); for changing the name of a column, right? So, why doesn't the below work? mysql> ALTER TABLE actors CHANGE director_id actor_id; I get this, 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 near '' at line 1 Sorry, little confused right about now, eh. Cheers. Mark Sargent. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
