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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:02:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing terminal period from varchar string in table column
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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 in web page examples.
Using update looks better to me.

Many thanks,

Rich