Question

I am using MySQL DB.

I have a cars table, by describing this table describe cars, I see the “flag” field of this table has type tinyint(1).

I tried to update the value of “flag” field for all records in this table by executing the following command:

UPDATE TABLE cars SET flag=0;

But It fails, the error message is:

ERROR 1064 (42000): 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 UPDATE TABLE cars SET flag=0

Why it fails? How to resolve it?

Answer 1

UPDATE cars SET flag=0;

… the TABLE keyword is wrong