Question

I have in a column names(notes) as

Notes:

John’s Table

Smith's Window

Column contains an apostrophe in it. I am trying to run 2 queries.

1. Select query to get the column entries that have apostrophe.
2. Update those with apostrophe with empty string ie.John’s Table replace to John Table

select notes from table1 where notes like ‘ ‘% ‘;

I get a syntax error , any help will be great.

Answer 1

Escape the apostrophe with a backslash;

select notes from table1 where notes like '%\'%';

And to update, use REPLACE()

UPDATE table1 SET notes = REPLACE(notes, '\'', '');