Question

I want to update a specific column for all rows in a table in phpMyAdmin.

I use this:

UPDATE jk_m1_users SET group = '2' WHERE group = '1'

However I get this error message:

#1064 - 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 'column1 = 2 WHERE column1 = 1' at line 2

Answer 1

group is MySQL’s reserved word. Since you called your column like that, you now need to put backticks around it every time you use it.

UPDATE jk_m1_users SET `group` = '2' WHERE `group` = '1'

For a full list of reserved words follow this finely crafted link (choose your MySQL version from menu on the left for better accuracy)