Question

Please help, I have a column (range varchar(11)) with values like '422000', '357860'.

I need a query that can change the first character position (i.e 4 and 3) to 5.

so that it becomes '522000' and '557860', respectively.

I tried:

select replace (SUBSTRING(range,1,1), 1,5))

but this is not the correct query.

I would appreciate your contribution. Thanks

Answer 1

Use the STUFF function for this:

DECLARE
    @range varchar(11);
SET @range = '422000';

SELECT @range, STUFF(@range, 1, 1, '5');