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cmorgan007
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Posted - 2011-05-17 : 09:59:02

My technical guy is away and I'm stuck. I need to run an SQL Query on a particular table. When in the table instead of opening if I go to 'open table- query' I need to remove the first character from a column. The column is called 'number' The column currently contains numbers i.e 07900666666 and I wish to remove the first number '0'.

can some kind soul send me the query that will achieve this.

Thanks

lionofdezert
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885 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-17 : 10:13:12

UPDATE yourTable
SET NumberColumn = CASE LEFT(NumberColumn ,1) WHEN '0' THEN SUBSTRING(NumberColumn,2,LEN(NumberColumn)-1) END

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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-17 : 10:23:50

I would say your number column is defined as varchar(n)

Can you post the DDL?

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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-17 : 10:26:30

slight problem there


DECLARE @t table([number] varchar(25))

INSERT INTO @t([number])
SELECT '07900666666'  UNION ALL
SELECT '7900666665'   UNION ALL
SELECT '007900666667'

SELECT CHARINDEX('0',[number]) FROM @t

SELECT CASE LEFT([Number] ,1) WHEN '0' THEN SUBSTRING([Number],2,LEN([Number])-1) ELSE [Number] END
FROM @t

what if there is more than 1 leading 0

Brett

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