Question

I have a column in a table that has values encapsulated in quotation marks (i.e. “USA”, “Mexico”, “Russia”, “China”, etc.) I would like to remove the quotation marks and leave the rest of the string intact (USA, Mexico, etc.). Is there a simple statement for this? Or do I need to use a combination of LEFT, RIGHT, and SUBSTRING functions? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This will remove all the " marks, even those in the middle of the value.

UPDATE YourTable
SET CountryName = REPLACE(CountryName, '"', '');