On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Thom Brown wrote:
UPDATE companies
SET company_name = rtrim(company_name, '.')
WHERE company_name != rtrim(company_name, '.');
Thom,
That makes sense. The web pages I read assumed I knew to use the UPDATE
command. As this was the first time I needed to clean column conten
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, 18:59 Rich Shepard, wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Thom Brown wrote:
>
> > There are various options, but perhaps just use rtrim.
> > rtrim(company_name, '.')
>
> Thom,
>
> I looked at rtrim() but didn't see where to specify the table name. Would
> it
> be `select * from table
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Jeff Ross wrote:
How about
test:
select company_name, replace(company_name,'.','') from companies;
update:
update companies set company_name = replace(company_name,'.','') where
company_name like '%.';
Jeff,
These contain the table and column names I didn't see
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Thom Brown wrote:
There are various options, but perhaps just use rtrim.
rtrim(company_name, '.')
Thom,
I looked at rtrim() but didn't see where to specify the table name. Would it
be `select * from table companies rtrim(company_name, '.')'?
Thanks,
Rich
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, 18:30 Rich Shepard, wrote:
> I want to remove the terminal period '.' from the varchar strings in the
> 'company_name' column in all rows with that period in the companies table.
>
> I've looked at trim(), translate(), "substr(company_name 1,
> length(compan_name) - 1)", and
On 7/15/25 11:30, Rich Shepard wrote:
I want to remove the terminal period '.' from the varchar strings in the
'company_name' column in all rows with that period in the companies
table.
I've looked at trim(), translate(), "substr(company_name 1,
length(compan_name) - 1)", and a couple of othe
I want to remove the terminal period '.' from the varchar strings in the
'company_name' column in all rows with that period in the companies table.
I've looked at trim(), translate(), "substr(company_name 1,
length(compan_name) - 1)", and a couple of other functions and am unsure how
best to do t
