At 11:33p -0400 on 21 Oct 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > Not to bash MySQL (much...) but ISTM that this is another example of > MySQL playing fast and loose with SQL. I don't have handy a spec guide. Does this mean that MySQL is indeed showing incorrect behavior? I like what's been said upthread: The query MySQL apparently sees: UPDATE test SET name = 'kevin' WHERE passion = 'soccer' AND name <> 'kevin'; The query as I wrote: UPDATE test SET name = 'kevin' WHERE passion = 'soccer'; Even though it is, in fact, the same, it should still be updated because that's what I said. Is that what you're saying? Is that the spec? Thanks, Kevin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly