RE: Find/Replace based on a table - strange results

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April 19, 2015 at 9:05 pm

#1791912

With only 5 known characters to replace so far and very few that could remain, I recommend keeping this as simple and fast as possible. You could easily turn this into an iTVF as well.

UPDATE t

SET Question = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(

t.Question

,CHAR(147),'"'),CHAR(148),'"'),CHAR(151),'-'),CHAR(150),'-'),CHAR(146),'''')

FROM dbo.Table$ t

;

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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