Introduction
Mostly everyone is familiar with C# replace function. In this article I will explain the use of replace function in Microsoft SQL Server. A simple function to replace bulk amount of data in the database. Here I will also give some examples.
Table
My table contains bulk amount of data and some of the values are wrongly entered into the database. So I want to change those particular values into the table using a single query.
The given table contains incorrect address in the "Address1" column like httpp://www.c-sharpcorner.com/, so http is appended with an extra p ("httpp"). So we can update those values in a single query. How ? Microsoft SQL Server provides Replace function to replace particular data.
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SQL Query
The following code will replace that particular data.
- update dbo.Tbl_Replace set Address1 = Replace(Address1,'httpp','http')
We can directly use the update method in the above query. Why we are using replace function in SQL?
Because when you are trying to update bulk amount of data you can use the replace function. It will consume the time of update, since you don't have to update each and every address separately.
- update dbo.Tbl_Replace set Address1 = 'http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/' where Id=1
The above update code only changes the particular
Id value.
Example 1
Replace Function
The SQL Replace function replacing "
httpp" to "
http".
- update dbo.Tbl_Replace set Address1 = Replace(Address1,'httpp','http')
Output
The Replace function replaced the appended value using a single query.
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Example 2
Table
How to put space between "
BlogContent" like "
Blog Content" without affecting whole content in the database.
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Replace Function
You can use a single space.Like
'Content' to
' Content'.
- update dbo.Tbl_Replace set Details = Replace(Details,'Content',' Content')
Output
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ReferenceSummary
We learned how to use a replace function in Microsoft SQL Server. I hope this article is useful for .NET programmers.