Question

This is driving me insane. I’m trying to INSERT a value into the following “stats” table:

_date       spam1
-----------------
2011-06-13

using

INSERT INTO stats (spam1) VALUES (7) WHERE `_date` = '2011-06-13'

MySQL returns

#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 'WHERE `_date` = '2011-06-13'' at line 1

I don’t understand. Removing the quotes around the date or the backticks around _date doesn’t help either. What am I doing wrong?

[EDIT]
Thanks – you all get an upvote 🙂 How stupid of me…of course I need an UPDATE instead of INSERT…time to take a break I guess 😛

Answer 1

You want an UPDATE not an INSERT, try:

UPDATE stats SET `spam1` = 7  WHERE `_date` = '2011-06-13'