On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:34, 3mip1s4la-Emilio Pisanty wrote:
> 
> > > tables have met with a 1175 error ("You are using safe update mode and you
> > > tried to update a table without a WHERE that uses a KEY column"). 
> > Nothing is obvious and is hard to advise you if you don't give us some more
> > info on the table structure and the update query you have trouble with.
> > 
> > /h
> 
> ok. thable structure is this:
> mysql> describe pupils;
> +----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> | Field    | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
> +----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> | name     | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | surname  | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | surname2 | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | form     | char(3)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | tutor    | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | sex      | char(1)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | birth    | date        | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | math     | char(3)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | optA     | char(3)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | optB     | char(3)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> +----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> 10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> it was built in version 3.23, and we recently updated to 4.0.4 beta.
> 
> the query I'm running is 
> 
> mysql> UPDATE pupuils SET tutor = 'URIOSTEGUI' WHERE group = 'U6U';
> (setting the name of the tutor for Upper 6)
> 
> and I meet with:
> ERROR 1175: You are using safe update mode and you tried to update a table 
> without a WHERE that uses a KEY column
> 
> I don't quite understand what a "KEY column" is, can someone explain it to 
> me? if you can't answer, where can I find error listings? because they 
> don't appear to be on the site.
> 
> hope this helps you help me...
 well a couple of things I see.
1. you have no group in field  so it can't compare U6U to anything.
2. I don't think you can use a field name group anyway since group is
reserved in mysql
3. you have no key in your table therefore you can't do a conditional
statement ("where") to compare it to.
Error 1175 is the error that was reported to you.
You are using safe update mode and you tried to update a table  
without a WHERE that uses a KEY column


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