cannot alter table - rather urgent

2009-05-21 Thread PJ
I have a seemingly impossible situation. I cannot insert values into the tables and I cannot alter or delete the primary key (which should not exist) or delete the foreign keys nor remove the constraint. G search doesn't help. CREATE TABLE `book_categories` ( `bookID` smallint(6) unsigned NOT

Re: cannot alter table - rather urgent

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Dykman
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:06 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I have a seemingly impossible situation. I cannot insert values into the tables and I cannot alter or delete the primary key (which should not exist) or delete the foreign keys nor remove the constraint. G search doesn't help.

Re: cannot alter table - rather urgent

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Brawley
I cannot insert values into the tables What is the error message? Has the smallint key run out of values? and I cannot alter or delete the primary key (which should not exist) Eh? Without a PK, it ain't a table. or delete the foreign keys nor remove the constraint. G search doesn't help.