Question

I have a table with Projects, in the description field I want to replace Char(10) with ” in a lot of records.

I can replace it record by record manually like this:

UPDATE tblProjects
SET    Description = (SELECT Replace(Description, Char(10), ' ')
                      FROM   tblProjects
                      WHERE  ( Description LIKE '%' + Char(10) + '%' )
                             AND ProjectID = XAXD)
WHERE  ( Description LIKE '%' + Char(10) + '%' )
       AND ProjectID = XAXD

but would like a more generic solution like for foreach project and then have ProjectID as a variable.

Answer 1

Can’t you just do

UPDATE tblProjects SET    

   Description =  Replace(Description, Char(10), ' ')

WHERE  ( Description LIKE '%' + Char(10) + '%' )
       AND ProjectID = 'XAXD'

You were repeating the condition in 2 places

You can also remove the AND part to update all projects having char(10)

UPDATE tblProjects SET    

   Description =  Replace(Description, Char(10), ' ')

WHERE  ( Description LIKE '%' + Char(10) + '%' )

or use parameter @ProjectID in place of ‘XAXD’

Declare @ProjectID varchar(50)

SET @ProjectID = 'XAXD'
UPDATE tblProjects SET    

   Description =  Replace(Description, Char(10), ' ')

WHERE  ( Description LIKE '%' + Char(10) + '%' ) AND
       ProjectID = @ProjectID