adding an 'A' to most of the data in the column

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adding an 'A' to most of the data in the column

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shaharidan
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2 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-21 : 17:13:25

Microsoft SQL 2005

I have a table called Room.
The table has 3 columns.
1) OriginId
2) Room
3) RoomConv

I would like to add the letter 'A' to anything in the column Room that doesn't allready have a letter 'A' or 'B' in the Room.

So Room '1000' would become room '1000A'
Room '2000A' would stay Room '2000A'
Room '3000-B' would stay Room '3000-B'

Any help would be appreciated I have some experience with Cache SQL,
but nothing I've tried is working in microsoft.

Thanks,
Mike

DBAPBFL
Starting Member

11 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-21 : 17:48:17

declare @room varchar(100)='1000'
select case when (charindex('A',@room)>0 or charindex('B',@room)>0) then @room else @room+'A' end

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-22 : 04:51:24

[code]
UPDATE t
SET t.Room=Room+'A'
FROM table t
WHERE t.Room NOT LIKE '%[A,B]'
[/code]

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shaharidan
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-22 : 10:57:29

Thanks, worked great.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-22 : 11:40:49

wc

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