Dawn Buie wrote: > I used: > > update media_instance set location=replace(location,'v.','') > where location like '%/0/v.%' > > and that did work- > > thank you very much. > > it seems to me that the replace function is the same as translate()- no? > Right, I forgot your WHERE clause.
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