Thanks for the answer but that's not it. It was my typo. I am really updating
and selecting from the same table.
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>>> On 4/9/2008 at 1:54 PM, in message
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> We have just moved to a new web server where we are running mysql
> version: 5.0.45
> On the old machine, when we gave the following command:
> update table1 set passwd = password('xx') where user_name="xx";
Here you're updating 'table1'...
> and then gave the following command,
> SELECT us