[support] Mass Changing UID

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>:

> Drupal Mavens,
>
> On a site with about 600 nodes I need to change the node author on about 300
> of them. It's very straightforward in that everything that is written by
> uid="2" needs to change to uid="4".
>
> I was about to write a simple sql query to implement in phpMyAdmin but
> thought I'd come here first (*and* back up the db).
>
> I'm seeing uid in two tables: node and node_revisions. Does UID exist
> anywhere else?
>
> Also, would I be fine with just changing it in the node_revisions table?
>
>

The safer method is to node_load(), change the data and then 
node_save().  This gives any contrib modules you have a chance to do 
anything necessary.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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