How can I change a batch of fields in phpmyadmin in one go? [closed]

Question

I want to change the value of a specific column within a search result in phpmyadmin. I could do it manually but the search results gives over 800 results. What solutions are there? Please appreciate that I am clearly not experienced with this so any replies would be good with great details.

Answer 1

Should be very simple with a single SQL query. Since you didn't include any information about your search criteria or schema, you'll need to heavily modify this example:

mysql> update <table_name> set <column_name> = "<new_value>" where <conditions>;

Replace the angle-bracketed placeholders with values appropriate to your environment.

I'm not all that familiar with phpmyadmin, but I do recall there being an area where you can specify an arbitrary SQL query for it to execute.

Since you're very new to this, there's a very high likelihood that you'll mess things up, make sure to get a good backup of the database before performing this operation.