Where is the table that holds the “Special Price” in Magento?

Question

Im trying to update the \"Special_price\" and \"price\" in bulk with mySQL an a php script, I know the table and row that contains the \"price\" but not the one that contain

Answer 1

Here is how to delete special price from a list of SKUs imported via a csv file into temp_import_sp_price_delete.

delete deci from catalog_product_entity_decimal deci, 
                 `catalog_product_entity` pr,
                 temp_import_sp_price_delete temp 
where temp.SKU= pr.SKU and pr.entity_id=deci.entity_id and deci.attribute_id=76 

Answer 2

Special Price is an attribute of decimal type. First you need to get the attribute id, by applying this sql query: SELECT attribute_id FROM eav_attribute WHERE attribute_code='special_price';

Then, you can add a special price for any product by inserting a record into catalog_product_entity_decimal table.

Answer 3

My membership in the Magento Question Answers Guild requires me to suggest you work on fixing your API errors instead of using plain old SQL to update the database. As mentioned elsewhere, updating the database directly might put Magento into a state not recognized by the system, which can lead to strange, infuriating errors.

That said, the special price value will be stored with the other product attribute values in the

catalog_product_entity_decimal

table. This table has an attribute_id column, which has a foreign key relationship with the eav_attribute table. Look in the eav_attribute table for the attribute with the code special_price. That attribute_id and the product's entity_id should be enough to find the correct row in catalog_product_entity_decimal.

Keep in mind no row will exist if a product doesn't have a special_price set. Also keep in mind if a product has a special_price set at different scope levels that there may be more than one row.