Sorry, I meant referenced in another table not database On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:09, Jonathan Villa wrote: > I have several tables I want to delete as well as their reference in > another database > > The query produced is this: > =========================================================================== > DROP TABLE xxx.zorder_47629403705b7e7f0c97387559d8c811; DELETE FROM > orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_47629403705b7e7f0c97387559d8c811"; > DROP TABLE xxx.zorder_17d991f48de0fdd157c31e77780d919e; DELETE FROM > orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_17d991f48de0fdd157c31e77780d919e"; > DROP TABLE xxx.zorder_b2709995c3d487b7e19e878ccbbd19cd; DELETE FROM > orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_b2709995c3d487b7e19e878ccbbd19cd"; > DROP TABLE xxx.zorder_7702fe78ee529c001ee989afc5471b94; DELETE FROM > orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_7702fe78ee529c001ee989afc5471b94"; > DROP TABLE xxx.zorder_1b0ee4e8d5d556debe217074ccc62bbc; DELETE FROM > orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_1b0ee4e8d5d556debe217074ccc62bbc"; > DROP TABLE xxx.zorder_d1d918c6231328c09dee573201e81102; DELETE FROM > orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_d1d918c6231328c09dee573201e81102"; > DROP TABLE xxx.zorder_8d9f0fc5e5f4e64d1207063de7abcff1; DELETE FROM > orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_8d9f0fc5e5f4e64d1207063de7abcff1"; > =========================================================================== > > If I run this query in PHPMyAdmin or MySQL CC, and echo out mysql_error > I get the following message > > 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 ';DELETE > FROM orders WHERE table_name = "zorder_47629403705b7e7f > > Here is my script... > $sql = 'SELECT table_name FROM orders WHERE completed = "0000-00-00 > 00:00:00"'; > $objRecordSet = new RecordSet($sql); > $sql = ''; > while ($rows = mysql_fetch_array($objRecordSet->getResultID())) { > //$sql .= ' DROP TABLE xxx.'.$rows['table_name'].';DELETE FROM orders > WHERE table_name = "'.$rows['table_name'].'";'; > } > $dbConn = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "new-password"); > mysql_select_db("xxx", $dbConn); > mysql_query($sql, $dbConn); > echo "<br>".mysql_error(); > > Any ideas -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php