Re: Find special characters in the database

If you know the character you are looking for, you can paste it into a script like the one below, to quickly fix specific tables and columns.

update table
set column_name= replace(column_name,'û',null) where column_name like '%û%'
/

You can use ' ' in place of null if you really want a blank in there. It may take a while to run on big tables.

Catherine A. LeBlanc, Database Analyst
Bates College

At 01:30 PM 3/20/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Can someone give me a guideline as to how I
>should draw a script to find special characters
>in the database and replace them with blanks.
>
>TIA
>
>Shakeel Qureshi
>squreshi_at_barpoint.com

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