Question

So essentially the problem I have is with a description filed in a table, the description field has been edited with some sort of wysiwig editor. and there are huge spaces between the markup tags.

So lets get all imaginative and call the table: table and the field, description. I want to select all description fields from the table and replace anything bigger than a space with a single space.

Is there any way I can do this within phpmyadmin, e/g using just sql?

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Backup.

UPDATE table SET description = REPLACE(description, '  ', ' ');

if you only need it once, just run this query ten times 🙂