RE: Oracle SQL help

From: Elliott, Patrick <patrick.elliott_at_medtronic.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:14:52 -0500
Message-ID: <302F06193D7F4D48ABC997408E786BD002322CB0@MSPM1BMSGM09.ent.core.medtronic.com>

If this is 10g, look into the documentation on regular expression functions. They will be able to do what you want.

Pat

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Bala Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:29 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: Oracle SQL help

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Want to update a column of a table with 150,000 rows

columns values are like "JOHN THOMPSON:0011442717"

Want to change the numeric value after ":" of each row to a 10 digit constant numeric 9999999999 for all 150,000 rows
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Thanks for all ideas and help.

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Bala Rao

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu Jun 28 2007 - 17:14:52 CDT