Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/07/06 00:42

David Greenberg (davidgr@iba.org.il) writes:
> I have a character field, varchar(60), and I want to replace only a part
> of it, a set substring which is always in the same set positions.
> Does anyone have an Sql statement or algorithm/sp that could do that
> with one call or run ?

UPDATE tbl
SET col = substring(col, 1, 20) + 'newval' + substring(col, 26, 60)
FROM tbl
WHERE ...


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