Weird UPDATE Problem

2011-10-10 Thread D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr.
Hello all. I have recently finished my migration from an older server to a newer server running RHEL 6. The MySQL version went from 5.0.77 to 5.1.52. In my application, this query used to work just fine: $paid_query = mysql_query(UPDATE $table_name SET owed = 0 WHERE s_id = $student); Where

Re: Weird UPDATE Problem

2011-10-10 Thread Brandon Phelps
That query looks fine. What error are you getting if you execute the query from the CLI? Also is it possible that the s_id or owed columns are no longer numeric data types? If this column(s) is/are a character type now, then you would need to have the values in quotes. -Brandon On

Re: Weird UPDATE Problem

2011-10-10 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/10/10 09:19 -0400, Brandon Phelps If this column(s) is/are a character type now, then you would need to have the values in quotes. Note that because of implicit conversion if they had numberic values no error would be reported, but maybe the equality would not be exact. -- MySQL