Question

For some reason this isn’t working – maybe I need to escape some of these characters in my text string that I’m trying to do the REPLACE() on? I also thought that using the % wildcard to select all texts for replacing might not be working, but I’m not sure what an alternative solution might be!

Here’s the SQL I’m trying to run to replace all text values in the column with a single, default text:

Update `table_name`
Set `field_name` = Replace(`field_name` , '%','{"notifyEmailSystem":1,"privacyProfileView":0,"privacyPhotoView":0,"privacyFriendsView":0,"privacyGroupsView":"","privacyVideoView":0,"notifyEmailMessage":1,"notifyEmailApps":1,"notifyWallComment":0}')

Answer 1

You don’t need Replace, you can Updatethe column directly

Update statement

Update `table_name`
Set `field_name` = '{"notifyEmailSystem":1,"privacyProfileView":0,"privacyPhotoView":0,"privacyFriendsView":0,"privacyGroupsView":"","privacyVideoView":0,"notifyEmailMessage":1,"notifyEmailApps":1,"notifyWallComment":0}'