Hi,
What you perhaps could use is the REGEXP usage in your where clause.
Try this:
update name set first_name=replace(first_name, '\\', '') where
first_name regexp '\\\\';
The fun thing is that when you put '\\' instead of the '\\\\' after the
regexp function it doesn't work. But this sure does.
Before you use the update, create a selection first with the regexp
function; if that works, your update will do fine.
Hope this little info helps you :-)
Danny
Jerry Swanson wrote:
I have 290 records in the database with backslashes. I want to remove the
backslashes. Why the query below doesn't remove backslashes?
update name set first_name = REPLACE(first_name,'\\\\','') where first_name
like '%\\\\%';
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