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Daniel Cronin
4,466 PointsAs far as I can tell I am correctly updating the rows in the table but the Challenge Task keeps failing.
I have tried update phone_book set (first_name, last_name) = ('Mystery', 'Person');
AND
update phone_book set first_name = 'Mystery';
update phone_book set last_name = 'Person';
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,184 PointsYou're close, and your second try would actually work in practice. But the challenge wants you to to construct a single query that sets both values.
To set multiple values at a time, you can just separate them by commas. Here's a generic example:
UPDATE table SET field1 = value1, field2 = value2;
Daniel Cronin
4,466 PointsDaniel Cronin
4,466 PointsThank you for the help. I could have sworn I tried that syntax originally but I guess not. Grouping with parentheses works in my IDE. Is it not correct syntax for SQLite?
Steven Parker
231,184 PointsSteven Parker
231,184 PointsThat would also work in practice, I'm not sure why it doesn't pass the challenge. But it's probably not the technique that was shown in the videos.
I'd normally suggest submitting a bug report, but considering the recent changes, I suspect there's nobody to handle it.