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Comment by marksomnian

8 years ago

MySQL Workbench won't let you run an UPDATE or DELETE without a WHERE by default.

Not sure why this isn't default in many tools. That's 99% for hazards.

  • Put the following into your ~/.my.cnf to enable it for the command-line client:

        [client]
        safe-updates=1

    • Thanks for the tip, however put that in [mysql] section or otherwise you'll ruin mysqldump command not recognizing that option.