RE: Help with updating records in a column.

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December 17, 2013 at 10:12 pm

Luis Cazares (12/17/2013)
As far as I understand, it should be more like this to keep the "prod" at the end of the name.
UPDATE TA
SET ServerName = STUFF(ServerName, CHARINDEX('.', Servername), CHARINDEX(' ', Servername) - CHARINDEX('.', Servername), '')
WHERE ServerName LIKE '%.%'

Hmmm... I wasn't even looking at the code examples. I was going only by...

basically I want to remove anything that starts with first "."

The code examples do tell a different story, though. Thanks for the catch.

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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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