Question

Suppose that I have one column in SQL from a simple SELECT statement.

How can I modify the text of particular row entries without overwriting the data?

I am looking at indenting some particular entries for a table I am creating in VS (e.g. every entry that is called ‘Name’ will be changed to ‘ Name’). So I want to modify my SQL query to change some particular fields to be indented when they are called.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

For MySQL you can use replace

SELECT REPLACE(field, 'Name', ' Name')

For Oracle you can do translate

SELECT TRANSLATE(...). 

you can also do this in both MySQL and T-SQL via a CASE statement too.