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                                    | djamitStarting Member
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2014-12-23 : 07:56:20 
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                                            | Hi I have a column in SQL showing Patient Sex (Female/Male)How Can I update the Column so that I can see only the first character of the string Female and Male( F and M)? |  |  
                                    | ahmeds08Aged Yak Warrior
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2014-12-23 : 08:06:40 
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                                          | update table set sex=(case when gender='Male' then 'M' else 'F' end)Javeed Ahmedhttps://www.linkedin.com/pub/javeed-ahmed/25/5b/95 |  
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                                    | IforAged Yak Warrior
 
 
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