The formatting of the requested request is correct. Before running UPDATE or DELETE it is always useful to run the SELECT this query to make sure that this is the change you want to make.
Your test request:
SELECT name FROM suppliers WHERE name = 'IBM';
However, the request you provide does not update the description column. For this you need something like:
UPDATE suppliers SET description = 'HP' WHERE name = 'IBM';
After doing this UPDATE you can run this query to confirm your result:
SELECT name, description FROM suppliers WHERE name = 'IBM';
Kermit
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