SQL Remove Characters from Field: Quick Guide

1 year ago
Liam
1 minute

In SQL, you can use the REPLACE function to remove specific characters from a field. The syntax is as follows:

SELECT REPLACE(column_name, 'character_to_remove', '') AS new_column_name
FROM table_name;

In this case, column_name is the field to be operated on, character_to_remove is the character to be removed, and ” represents replacing it with an empty character. For example:

Suppose there is a table called users with a field called name that contains spaces, and we need to remove those spaces.

SELECT REPLACE(name, ' ', '') AS new_name
FROM users;

This way you can remove the blank spaces in the field.

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