Larry:
Hey I'm really enjoying your book PHP 5 Advanced (c. 2007). However I'm having trouble with the same problems as Mike.
I currently have a Mac OSX 10.8 and MySQL Workbench running MySQL 5.5.29. Here is the code I am entering:
If I try to apply this, I go to a next screen and then when I click apply there again, it will be there was an error while applying this script to the datbase.
For reference, there is a red "x" next to my code by "SET".
Also, I tried entering the code you havea above exactly and that did not work either (sadface) !
Let me know what you think I should do.
