Hi Brendon,

You're welcome.

"is there a document anywhere that outlines cautions one should take
note of when upgrading?"

There's usually release notes that describe changes, but upgrades of
3rd party software are often skipping multiple versions and these
changes can be hidden away in very long apendices.

Many years ago when I was a PL/I and Cobol programmer I learned to
avoid conflict with the fact that half the dictionary was "reserved"
by applying the rule never use an English language word as a variable
name. It doesn't apply as much in these days of less verbose
languages, but I tend to avoid using common English words as column
names ... I never know when database-X is going to become important to
us and my SQL is going to break.

With MySQL you can always quote column names. Some say you should
always do this, I'm not keen on it as it makes migrating to other
database software more difficult.

Bruce


 On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Brendan Brink
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you so much Bruce, took your advice and worked....
>
> is there a document anywhere that outlines cautions one should take
> note of when upgrading?
>
> be good to prevent errors before they pop up out of the blue...
>
> Thanks again Bruce - life saver!
>
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