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  • March 14, 2014 at 7:27 am

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    rajemessage 14195 (3/14/2014)

    Hi,

    REPLACE function will replace all occurrence of any expression.

    is there any thing which can replace only first occurrence ,

    and is there any thing which can only search matchwholeword.

    yours sincerly

    CHARINDEX and SUBSTRING should be able to do this for you.

    If you can elaborate a little more on your requirements we can probably help.

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