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2004-01-29 -- Rick Martin
 
Newsgroups: softvelocity.clarion.databasedrivers >Maybe a bit off the Clarion topic, but I had a situation where I >wanted to do an update on a mysql table and on one column, replace >certain characters (replace + with a space). > >It looked logical to do something like: > >Update mytable > set mycolumn = select Replace(mycolumn, '+',' ') > >But it didn't like that. After messing with this a bit, I decided to >write a little process in Clarion to take care of this. But I'm >curious how this could be accomplished directly in SQL just for future >reference. Anyone have ideas? Hi Arnor, I don't know if MYSQL syntax is different than MSSQ, but this works for me. Update Engineer Set Name = Replace(Name,'Martin','Martini') I don't think you need the 'Select' part in your example. HTH, Rick Martin Sharpe Software, Inc

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