Question

I have a MySQL Database.

In it’s table is a field called ‘itm_name’

I’m trying to retrieve several bits of data from this field.

However, there is some non-uniformity due to irregular whitespaces and alignment.

Is it possible to shift some of the entries to the right and replace the shifted areas with WhiteSpace?

For Example:

From:

CHOCOABLOC        (CH Egg.  |

To:

    CHOCOABLOC          (CH Egg.  |

Answer 1

update your_table
set your_column = concat('  ', your_column)
where substring(your_column, 1, 2) != '  '