Re: Editing fields in bulk

2007-09-05 Thread Martijn Tonies
> I have a column where I need to replace all instances of the text "US- > Complete" (contained within a long sentence) with "US Complete". > There are probably 50 or 100 of them. I'm really scared to do it > since I can't risk screwing up that column - what's the correct syntax? When you s

Re: Editing fields in bulk

2007-09-04 Thread Baron Schwartz
Brian Dunning wrote: I have a column where I need to replace all instances of the text "US-Complete" (contained within a long sentence) with "US Complete". There are probably 50 or 100 of them. I'm really scared to do it since I can't risk screwing up that column - what's the correct syntax?

Re: Editing fields in bulk

2007-09-04 Thread Gary Josack
Brian Dunning wrote: I have a column where I need to replace all instances of the text "US-Complete" (contained within a long sentence) with "US Complete". There are probably 50 or 100 of them. I'm really scared to do it since I can't risk screwing up that column - what's the correct syntax?

RE: Editing fields in bulk

2007-09-04 Thread Hartleigh Burton
7;) WHERE `fieldname` LIKE '%US- Complete%'; -Original Message- From: Brian Dunning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:42 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Editing fields in bulk I have a column where I need to replace all instances of the t

Editing fields in bulk

2007-09-04 Thread Brian Dunning
I have a column where I need to replace all instances of the text "US- Complete" (contained within a long sentence) with "US Complete". There are probably 50 or 100 of them. I'm really scared to do it since I can't risk screwing up that column - what's the correct syntax? -- MySQL General Ma