Re: SQL UPDATE SET -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SQL UPDATE SET
From: Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 18:27:57 -0400
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In case Matt's reply wasn't clear, you cannot "SET SUBSTR(FIELD,x,y) =
something" in SQL. You must set the entire field to concatenated
substrings. This has burned me before as well.

- Dan

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 6:19 PM Tyler, Matt <matt.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Update ...
Set field = substr(field,x,y) concat x'????' concat substr(field, xx,yy)

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