[SQL] SET DEFAULT

2002-11-13 Thread Archibald Zimonyi
Hi everyone, I have a problem with adding a column to an existing table. I want to add a column named modified which is of datatype TIMESTAMP and has a DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as it's initial value. I cannot do this with ALTER TABLE, it tells me to user ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT instead but I can

Re: [SQL] Double quotes?

2002-07-08 Thread Archibald Zimonyi
> The information you gave is not very helpful. > An INSERT command, which caused the error, would help. > Anyway, did you enclose the text by single quotes? > AFAIK, you do not have to escape double quotes. > Found the problem. Yes I enclosed the text in single quotes, and the text also i

[SQL] Double quotes?

2002-07-08 Thread Archibald Zimonyi
Hi everyone, I have a column with type text and am trying to pump in a larger amount of text that has double quotes and also commas in between. I got an error when I tried to do a simple INSERT. I then tried to escape the double quote with a backslash but that didn't work. The manual for the 7.1