Showing posts with label ltnullsgt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ltnullsgt. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

replacing nulls

Using the DTS ive successfully transfered data from access to sql - however
i need to replace the <nulls>
with '' - is there an easy way to do this ?
thanks
markUPDATE SomeTable
SET col1 = COALESCE(col1, ''),
col2 = COALESCE(col2, ''),
...
WHERE col1 IS NULL
OR col2 IS NULL
...
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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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> UPDATE SomeTable
> SET col1 = COALESCE(col1, ''),
> col2 = COALESCE(col2, ''),
> ...
> WHERE col1 IS NULL
> OR col2 IS NULL
> ...
> --
> David Portas
> SQL Server MVP
> --
>
thanks for the help!
marksql