trying to run a replace on TEXT

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trying to run a replace on TEXT

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antifreze
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Posted - 2008-06-26 : 13:48:52

So I attempted the following query to replace all references of 'href="/' to 'href="../'

Update table_one
Set Content = replace(Content, 'href="../','href="../')

and I get a "argument data type text is invalid for argument 1 of replace function."

So I do some research and find that the STUFF function can work on text, so I write this:

Select Content, STUFF(Content, CharIndex('href="/', Content), 7, 'href="../') FROM table_one

and I get the same error "argument data type text is invalid for argument 1 of stuff function."

Are there any other solutions to this?

madhivanan
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Posted - 2008-06-26 : 13:52:26

Read about UPDATETEXT in sql server help file

Madhivanan

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visakh16
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Posted - 2008-06-26 : 13:53:29

Try using UPDATETEXT as given here:-

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/handlingthetextdatatype/985/

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