[ale] foreign key?
Vaidhy Mayilrangam
vaidhy at loonys.net
Fri Jan 25 11:53:34 EST 2002
Do the update without quotes for 1 and 13..
Vaidhy
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:48:31AM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to update the values of Contact_ID and
> Volunteer_ID in a table called Contributors. The layout for
> Contributors is
>
> +----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra
> |
> +----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> | Contributor_ID | tinyint(3) | | PRI | 0 |
> auto_increment |
> | Name | varchar(100) | | | |
> |
> | Street_Address | varchar(50) | YES | | NULL |
> |
> | City | varchar(20) | YES | | NULL |
> |
> | State | varchar(5) | YES | | NULL |
> |
> | Zip | mediumint(8) | YES | | NULL |
> |
> | Contact_ID | tinyint(3) | YES | | NULL |
> |
> | Volunteer_ID | tinyint(3) | YES | | NULL |
> |
> +----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
>
> I'm using the command:
>
> update Contributors set Contact_ID = "1", Volunteer_ID = '13'
> where Name = "Somebody Lastname";
>
> After having issued the command, I get
>
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> Rows matched: 0 Changed: 0 Warnings: 0
>
> But then when I select * in Contributors where Name = "Somebody
> Lastname"; The values haven't been updated. They remain 0
> and 0.
>
> What gives? Is this a foreign key problem?
>
> TIA.
>
>
> PS. Oh yeah, I'm using mysql 3.22 on debian 2.2.
>
> --
> David S. Jackson dsj at dsj.net
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