Just remember that REPLACE won't work on text fields. Varchar, yes.
On 12/8/06, Charlie Arehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To clarify, as is clear from the example, Teddy has shown there the T-SQL way of doing the replace (he doesn't mean the CFML Replace function), which would mean either doing it in the SQL Server Enterprise Manager (or Management Studio in 2005), or trying to do it in a CFQUERY, though often the database driver will preclude use of statements other than SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and similar. Someone else may suggest to Michael that he could do it all in CFML, pulling the data in via a SELECT, doing the replace in CFML, and then updating the record, but unless you have no other choice, it would be generally more efficient to do it in the database directly. And if you needed to do it recurrently and programmatically (rather than manually), it would still be better to look into creating a stored procedure on the server and calling that. Hope that helps. /Charlie http://www.carehart.org/blog/ ------------------------------ *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Teddy Payne *Sent:* Friday, December 08, 2006 4:44 PM *To:* discussion@acfug.org *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Data Update REPLACE Replaces all occurrences of the second given string expression in the first string expression with a third expression. Syntax REPLACE *( '**string_expression1**' , '**string_expression2**' , '** string_expression3**' )* <snip> Examples This example replaces the string cde in abcdefghi with xxx. SELECT REPLACE('abcdefghicde','cde','xxx') GO ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> -------------------------------------------------------------
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