remove double quotes from column data

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remove double quotes from column data

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eugz
Posting Yak Master

210 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-17 : 16:21:50

Hi All.
I imported data from flat file to SQL Server database table. After execution one of column got data with double quotes. It look like:

22222.....02/14/2014....."Smith, John"
333........02/14/2014....."Brownies, Alian"

How to remove quotes?

Thanks.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-17 : 16:34:10

If double quotes don't exist in the middle of the data, then you can use this:

update yourtable
set yourcolumn = replace(yourcolumn, '"', '')

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

eugz
Posting Yak Master

210 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-17 : 17:06:16

Works great, Thank you Tara.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-17 : 17:12:07

You're welcome, glad to help.

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

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