Udate Query

[davidg47]

Man oh man... I must be dumb as a door nail.

I am trying to update some records in a table named masterIHOP.

So, I go to the Enterprise Manager, open it, navigate to the database named BdbCSSQL and even expand the tables and highlight the masterIHOP table. Then I open the Query Analyzer and type in the following:

Update masterIHOP
Set [reason desc]='No Other Information'
Where

='V301'

And even though I have tried several ways to type it and with different CAPS configurations, every time I get:
(0 row(s) affected)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

 

[Matty]

You're sure there is at least one record with a code of V301?

 

[davidg47]

Yes, positive... actually at first I was using a code that wasn't in the table. So I looked through the table to find an existing code.

 

[FoFa]

What happens when you just use a select?
SELECT [reason desc],

FROM masterIHOP
WHERE [code]='V301'

 

[davidg47]

I got it to work with the first query. I looked and looked for reasons as to why it would not work and everywhere I went, they pretty much said to do it the way I was doing it. So I went to the physical SQL Server and opened the Query Analyzer and typed it in with the same results. So I opened the table to look at the data and saw that there actually was a space between the V and the 301 that would not show up on the old monitor I was using in my office. Well duh! Thanks for your help.