Question

I want to update a mysql row, but I do not want to specify all the column names.
The table has 9 rows and I always want to update the last 7 rows in the right order.
These are the Fields

id
projectid
fangate
home
thanks
overview
winner
modules.wallPost
modules.overviewParticipant

Is there any way I can update the last few records without specifying their names?
With an INSERT statement this can be done pretty easily by doing this:

INSERT INTO `settings`
VALUES (NULL, ...field values...)

So I was hoping I could do something like this:

UPDATE `settings`
VALUES (NULL, ...field values...)
WHERE ...statement...

But unfortunately that doesn’t work.

Answer 1

You can’t. You always have to specify the column names, because UPDATE doesn’t edit a whole row, it edits specified columns.
Here’s a link with the UPDATE syntax:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/update.html