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phrankbooth
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2008-01-09 : 17:18:08
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| Hello,Wondering if anyone may have any advice on how to do this?I need to do Find/Replace of text in a varchar field so that it looks for text I want then it replaces that text with the new text and updates the field with that specific change, leaving everything else intact.And I need to do this for every row in a table.Thanks in advance!!--PhB |
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dataguru1971
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2008-01-09 : 17:39:00
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Update [Field]Set [Field] = REPLACE([Field],"oldtext","newtext")
Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. |
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phrankbooth
Posting Yak Master
162 Posts |
Posted - 2008-01-09 : 19:37:34
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| Thanks!Will this replace "abc" with "xyz" if the entire text of the field is "123abcdefghi" so that the field remains intact as "123xyzdefghi" ?Or is that a whole text replacement command? |
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dataguru1971
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1464 Posts |
Posted - 2008-01-09 : 20:43:35
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Just the text you specify will be replaced, the rest will remain intact
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Find Replace?