Never mind. Renaming the files worked the trick. :) Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kenigson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 11:35 AM Subject: Problems with reserved words > Howdy, > > Recently I was working with a contractor on a schema for a project. I'm > terribly embarrassed to admit that one of the tables we came up with got > named "order" since it keeps track of an order number assigned to a shipment > by a vendor. I bet you know what's coming next. Somehow, mysql didn't > complain when he created the table, but I quickly realized our mistake when > every query, including RENAME and DROP queries came up as invalid because of > the reserved word ORDER. > > I figure that I'll have to dump all of the other tables, create a new db, > reload all the tables into the new db and drop the old db to get rid of that > "order" table, then re-create it under a new name (ship_order, maybe). I > was just hoping someone on the list might have another idea or some way to > delimit the name. To be honest, I'm mostly curious at this point. It's not > really that much work to fix this (unless dropping the db proves to not > work). > > Here's a thought: Would renaming the MYD, MYI, and frm files do the job? > I'll try that now. > > Thanks, > > Matt Kenigson > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
