Question

I’m playing around with MySQL running in Ubuntu. I have sample data in the table property. There are names in the column name that are strings including quotes around them. In order to select them, I have to run something like this:

select * from property
where name = '"john"'

The results show "john"

Is there an easy way to remove all the quotes from all the names?

Is there a way to delete the third character in each string in a column?

Is it possible to replace each instance of a character within a column with another character?

For example, if names James, Jane, and Jeffrey were in the column, replacing e’s with o’s would produce Jamos, Jano, and Joffroy.

Answer 1

update property
set name = replace(name,'"','');

update property
set name = replace(name,SUBSTRING ( name , 3 ,1),'');

update property
set name = replace(name,'a','o');