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I am not able to rectify the problem

UPDATE tbl_delete SET delete='60' WHERE tablename='somereports'

The above code throws error the following error:

Error in Updation Query
UPDATE tbl_delete SET delete='60' WHERE tablename='somereports'
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 'delete='60' WHERE tablename='somereports'' at line 1

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delete is a reserved word in MySQL, you should use backticks to escape it:

UPDATE `tbl_delete` SET `delete`='60' WHERE `tablename`='somereports'

List of all MySQL reserved words

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Delete is reserved keyword in mysql in must be in backtick. OR change the column name which is not in the list of reserved keyword

UPDATE tbl_delete SET `delete`='60' WHERE tablename='somereports'

OR you can also write table name before column name as

UPDATE tbl_delete SET tbl_delete.delete='60' WHERE tbl_delete.tablename='somereports'

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DELETE is a reserved keyword in MySQL so it's parsed like a keyword and not like a column name. MySQL expects valid DELETE syntax after the DELETE keyword but instead it "sees" an equals symbol (=). Wrap it in `` to fix the error like this:

UPDATE tbl_delete SET `delete`='60' WHERE tablename='somereports';

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