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Enjoy Nitin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Stassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Caroline Jen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: Re: Is It Possible To Change the Value of A Particular Field Manually? > > Caroline Jen wrote: > > Hi, I am not a database person. I have a database > > called "members". One of the fields in this database > > is "user_name". There are a number of records in > > this database. Under the field user_name, I would > > like to make some changes manually; for example, I > > want to change > > > > John Doe > > > > to > > > > john_doe > > > > Is it possible to do it? How do I do it? Thank you > > very much in advance. > > Yes. You can specify the records you want with a WHERE clause. First > try a SELECT to test your WHERE clause to make sure you get just the > record(s) you want: > > SELECT * FROM members WHERE user_name = 'John Doe'; > > As long as that looks right, then use UPDATE to modify the record(s): > > UPDATE members SET user_name='john_doe' WHERE user_name = 'John Doe'; > > See <http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/UPDATE.html> in the manual for more. > > Michael > > > -- > 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]
