> Hi Ive been spending the last day trying to work out why im getting an
> error when trying to UPDATE columns in a table.
>
> heres the update code im using.
>
> $query="UPDATE software SET title='$ud_title', dec='$un_dec' WHERE
> id='$ud_id'";
> $dbResult = mysql_query($query, $dbLink)
> or die ("Database Error: " . mysql_error() );
>
> if I only update title='$ud_title' it works fine but when I try to
update
> more than one column it returns this error.
>
> Database Error: 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 'dec='' WHERE id='1'' at line 1
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Reference.html
#Reserved_words
DEC is a reserved word. Choose another column name.
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