Question

there is a problem with my MySQL query. I have a table with one of the columns “read” where the values are “1” by default and is automatically set to tinyint(1) by phpmyadmin instead of bool.

When I perform a query:

SELECT * FROM book WHERE read = '1'

It gives an error.

But when I perform this query:

SELECT * FROM book WHERE id = '77'

It is fine. I don’t see any problem except that maybe tinyint cannot be searched that way. Can someone please help? I’ve travelled across google but found no answers.

Answer 1

just remove the quotes

as it is tinyint you should not use quote (use them for strings or characters or dates)

select * from `table_name` where `read`=1;

if it doesn’t work then you can do casting as mentioned by Ilion ( it’s good )