>1) is the id field a character? in other words, do you need the
>quotes? id='10' ??
It is -> ID INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT and -> PRIMARY KEY(ID)
>2) why not just use
>DELETE FROM customer WHERE ID in ('7','8','9','10')
>??
>...I'll try that...
I tried the above method and same thing. It would only delete record '7'
I tried the above and the old with out the single quotes and then it
wouldn't do anything except die.
Dan
>-Joe
--- Dan Muey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here is the deal : I have a script that does quite a bit mysql
> manipulation everything works super except one simple delete
> statement
>
> print $query;
> This is copied and pasted from the above print statement :
> DELETE FROM customer WHERE ID='10' OR ID='9' OR ID='8' OR ID='7'
>
> $dbh->do($query) or die "Can not execute $query :" . $dbh->errstr .
> "\n";
>
> It does delete the first record specified ( in this case ID='10' )
> it acts as if the query where just : DELETE FROM customer WHERE
> ID='10'
>
> I get no error messages, it goes on and finishes displaying the
> page.
> When I've had bad queries before it would just stop at the 'do'
> statement and not finish printing the html out for the rest of the
> page.
>
> If I paste that query into the mysql>prompt it works like a charm
> and
> deletes all. ( with an added semi colon of course )
>
> i've usd the prepare/execue method, I've had it do execute a query
> for
> each id :
> foreach $ID(@ids) {
> $query = "DELETE FROM customer WHERE ID=\'$ID\'";
> print "$query \n";
> $dbh->do($query) or die "Can not execute $query :" .
> $dbh->errstr ."\n";
> $query = '';
> }
> results in this output :
>
> DELETE FROM customer WHERE ID='8'
> DELETE FROM customer WHERE ID='9'
> DELETE FROM customer WHERE ID='10'
> It acts as if only 'DELETE FROM customer WHERE ID='8'' is being
> executed
> or executed each time but $query is different each time in the
> print
> statement.
>
> all have the exact same result - only the first record specified
> gets
> deleted,( ID='8' above )the script behaves as if the query went ok,
> but
> they are still
> there and if I copy and paste the query into the command line it
> works
> fine.
>
> Here's what I got :
>
> perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd
> mysql 323
> DBI 1.21
>
> Why isn't it doing the entire query from my script?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
