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Modify Data to Add a Letter Before Numbers

  • February 6, 2020 at 1:07 pm

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    #3723570

    Hi

    I am using access and i have customers data (15k) records

    Now i want to modify a column 'Customers' in a table called 'MRF'

    In customers column i have ID Numbers of Customers

    I want to run a query to add a letter "X" before all ID numbers

    How can i do it

    thanks

  • February 6, 2020 at 1:13 pm

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    #3723574

    this should be simple -

    update MRF set Customer='x'+customer

     

    MVDBA

  • February 6, 2020 at 1:30 pm

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    Before you do that. What is your goal ?

     

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  • February 6, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    #3723730

    I was trying to copy the data from one column to another and then add X in front of it

    Thanks a lot 🙂

    I managed to do it with your help

    appreciated 🙂

  • February 7, 2020 at 7:11 pm

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    uknites wrote:

    I was trying to copy the data from one column to another and then add X in front of it

    Thanks a lot 🙂

    I managed to do it with your help

    appreciated 🙂

     

    The question is "WHY"?  Why is it necessary to prepend the data in the column with an "X"?  We ask these types of questions because people will sometimes have a method in their head to do something and end up doing things like you've requested when there might actually be a better way to accomplish the real "end goal" of the action.

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