[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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> 		-- Steven Wright
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