Question

I’m trying to take an existing column and parse each row for certain words in a string, i.e. Sheet, Page, Card, and based on that word (only one instance of one of these words is in a row) populate a new column in the same table with a value. If it did not find any of those words, leave Column B blank.

I.E. Column A contains the word “Sheet”, populate Column B with the letter “S”

So the table would be something like:

Column A  Column B
Sheet        S
Page         P
Card         C

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

UPDATE YourTable
    SET ColumnB = CASE WHEN ColumnA LIKE '%Sheet%' THEN 'S'
                       WHEN ColumnA LIKE '%Page%' THEN 'P'
                       WHEN ColumnA LIKE '%Card%' THEN 'C'
                       ELSE NULL /* or '' if you prefer */
                  END