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Posted - 2001-11-27 : 08:50:09
muralee writes "iam trying this ...to find all fields called "email" which are not ending with @something.com and replacing with "@hotmail.com"

UPDATE test SET email = email+'@hotmail.com' WHERE test.email NOT LIKE '%@%';


iam using ms access. but this qry adds @hotmail.com for all the entries. but i need to add this to fields which are not having the character "@".

help me please.

SGMuser."

izaltsman
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Posted - 2001-11-27 : 09:19:12
MS Access uses "*" wildcard instead of "%". So I am guessing something like this should work:

UPDATE test SET email = email+'@hotmail.com' WHERE test.email NOT LIKE '*@*';

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