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PeteLeHoq
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37 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-10 : 11:00:04

I've got a lot of %20 characters in my tables, and need to remove them however I get the error:

Argument data type ntext is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.

My Code:


UPDATE cmsPropertyData
SET dataNtext = REPLACE(dataNtext,'%20','')
WHERE cmsPropertyData.contentNodeId = 1151

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-10 : 11:32:26

[code]UPDATE cmsPropertyData
SET dataNtext = REPLACE(convert(varchar(max), dataNtext),'%20','')
WHERE cmsPropertyData.contentNodeId = 1151
[/code]

KH
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-11 : 05:31:53

As a sidenote ntext datatype is deprecated from sql 2005 onwards. so you should be using nvarchar(max) instead

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