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RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: Using SQL to replace a quote in a character string

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/20/2020
09:45:38 AM:
I want to thank everyone that replied to my question

I will probably end up using Dave Clark's suggestion


Select REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(a.bfname, ',', ' '), '"', ' '), '''',
' ') as New_Bfname from file a



But I will need to test it out first


Birgitta's suggestion (of using TRANSLATE) will perform better --
because it is a single function call rather then three nested function
calls.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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