Question

I’m importing a table from Access that has an address field the address field contains carriage returns, these remain when I have imported them into SQL, can I run a SQL script to remove them? Any ideas much appreciated.

Answer 1

This will replace Carriage Returns (char(13)) with a single space:

UPDATE MyTable
SET MyColumn = Replace(MyColumn, CHAR(13), ' ')

If you have Carriage Return + LineFeeds:

UPDATE MyTable
SET MyColumn = Replace(MyColumn, CHAR(13)+CHAR(10), ' ')