Question

I want write a simple query which will fetch data from a table (which may contain quotes and double quotes) but it should remove all the quotes in it.

e.g. for the following data:

EmpID  EmpName  CompName
-----  -------  -----------
1234   "xyz"    A's Company

Output Should Be:

EmpID  EmpName  CompName
-----  -------  -----------
1234   xyz      As Company

Answer 1

Make use of replace function of sql server resolve the issue for you

REPLACE ( string_expression , string_pattern , string_replacement )

select EmpID,
         replace(replace(EmpName,'"', ''),'''','') Empname, 
          replace(replace(CompName,'"', ''),'''','') CompName 
from table 

Note:

ordinarily you’d replace ‘ with ” and this will make SQL happy when querying the database. The trick with any of the built-in SQL functions (like replace) is that they too require you to double up your single quotes.

So to replace ‘ with ” in code you’d do this