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sharonejackson
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Canada
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Posted - 12/10/2012 :  12:44:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have a customer who has NEVER moderated her comments. She has over 13,000 of them and 99.9% are spam.

I tried this:

SELECT FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0
planning to delete once I had gotten them all.

But the error message I got was this:

#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 'FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0 LIMIT 0, 30' at line 1

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.Thanks so much!

sunitabeck
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge

5152 Posts
Posted - 12/10/2012 :  12:51:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You need to list the columns you want to select, or use a * for selecting all columns
SELECT col1,col2 FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0
-- or 
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0
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sharonejackson
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Canada
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Posted - 12/10/2012 :  13:06:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you! I knew I was missing something critical but simple! I appreciate your help very much.
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
48115 Posts
Posted - 12/14/2012 :  02:05:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Also in future you may be better off trying out in some MySQL forums if issue with MySQL specific syntax. This is MS SQL Server forum and we deal most;y with Transact SQL

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sharonejackson
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Canada
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Posted - 12/14/2012 :  16:46:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by visakh16

Also in future you may be better off trying out in some MySQL forums if issue with MySQL specific syntax. This is MS SQL Server forum and we deal most;y with Transact SQL


My apologies, I thought I was in the right forum. I see now that I am not.
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
48115 Posts
Posted - 12/15/2012 :  12:19:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
No problems
Just reminded you

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