Re: SQL statement help

[Vernon Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Benvenito, Marco

At 09:58 AM 5/13/1998 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi I'm from Italy,
>First of all sorry for my bad English.
>I'm trying improving my SQL and now I really need help in a UPDATE
>statement.
>I have a file with a character FIELD called SERIAL (p.e. "DB90999"), now I
>need to change all the field that have the first two character = "DB" with
>"AB" leaving all the rest as is.

Try this:

update file set serial = 'AB' concat substr(serial, 3, length(serial) - 2)
where substr(serial, 1, 2) = 'DB'

Hope this helps

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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