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GavinD1977
Yak Posting Veteran

83 Posts

Posted - 2006-11-20 : 07:55:26

Hello all.

I have a column named 'RELATED' of type text in a table. I want to update the contents of this colums...........but still keep what is currently stored in it. Basically i want to add some text onto the end of the string it currently contains.

Any help would be much appreciated.

harsh_athalye
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

5581 Posts

Posted - 2006-11-20 : 08:01:45

use UPDATETEXT(). Something like this:

create table #t
(
	a text
)

insert #t select 'abc'

DECLARE @ptrval binary(16),
	@len int

SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(a), @len = datalength(a) from #t

UPDATETEXT #t.a @ptrval @len 0 'pqr' 

select * from #t

Harsh Athalye
India.
"Nothing is Impossible"

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