Re: Replacing the pesky '

DBarbour_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu wrote:

>Gotta love Mondays,
>
>We've been through this before, and I usually don't have a problem, but
>today my brain must think it's the weekend.
>
>
>Hey, I've got a bunch of names like O'Brien and O'Reilley where I need to
>replace the ' symbol. I've tried every type of combination of single
>quotes and slashes(escape sequence) I can think of, but I must have missed
>one, because I can't get it to replace.
>
>Any Ideas? Here's the progenitor of the whole mess.
>
>1* select replace(lastname,' ' ') from adst where lastname like 'O%'
>

try replace(lastname, ' '' ')  

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