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macsterling
Yak Posting Veteran
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 Posted - 2009-01-23 : 19:52:43
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| How do I find a comma and get rid of it when it is somewhere in a column (it follows a name) |
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gravyface
Starting Member
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Posted - 2009-01-23 : 19:59:43
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Originally posted by macsterling
How do I find a comma and get rid of it when it is somewhere in a column (it follows a name)
The REPLACE function:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186862.aspx |
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Jai Krishna
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
333 Posts |
Posted - 2009-01-23 : 22:40:09
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| SELECT REPLACE(colname,',','') Jai Krishna |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
52326 Posts |
Posted - 2009-01-24 : 10:51:00
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| please keep in mind that replace replaces all the occurances of value with replacement value |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
52326 Posts |
Posted - 2009-01-24 : 10:52:46
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| if its just for extraction of data based on ',' position use CHARINDEX() |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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getting rid of a chracter (a trailing comma)