Question

Im trying to select a value from a table using Select As, so that I can then use that value in a find & replace statement. This is what I have so far, but no luck:

SELECT meta_value from wp_postmeta where meta_key=description and post_id IN (22179,22182) AS “video”, update wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content,”[description]”,”video”)

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

Answer 1

AS is for renaming columns that you SELECT, so it would look like this:

 SELECT meta_value as video from ...

which isn’t what you want. You’re after SELECT INTO, e.g.

 SELECT meta_value INTO @my_var from ...

And then you can use @my_var later.

See the manual.