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sharonejackson
Starting Member

3 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-10 : 12:44:58

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
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

5155 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-10 : 12:51:15

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

sharonejackson
Starting Member

3 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-10 : 13:06:25

Thank you! I knew I was missing something critical but simple! I appreciate your help very much.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-14 : 02:05:18

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
Starting Member

3 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-14 : 16:46:03

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.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-15 : 12:19:36

No problems
Just reminded you

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