Re: error when trying to delete a record

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""Jay Blanchard"" <jay.blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C8F323573C030A448F3E5A2B6FE2070B08EB9514@xxxxxxxxxx
[snip]
$query= "DELETE FROM sheet1 WHERE id=$id";

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds
to
your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
[/snip]

try...

$query= "DELETE FROM sheet1 WHERE id = '".$id."' ";

Note the single quotes around conditional data. Imagine if $id = 1 and
you did your original query, it would read...

$query= "DELETE FROM sheet1 WHERE id=1";

Which is where id = TRUE. You could end up deleting all of the records
in the database.

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Is the above statement true when the id field is numeric (which it surely is
in this case)? I get the expected results (in mySQL) when using statements
like

SELECT name FROM table WHERE id=1

with no single quotes round it. Putting quotes round integer values is
counter-intuitive - is it necessary in some cases?

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