Fixing bad data....

  • I just noticed that a lot of our newsletter subscribers seem to have had their emails mixed up by our server, so I now seem to have alot of these:

    ahoo.comXXXXXX@!2000@yahoo.com

    Anyone know of a good way to remove all the 'ahoo.com's at the begining of the emails w/o removing the ones at the end. I could do it manually I guess, but I'm feeling lazy. Thanks!

  • woops, ignore the 2 @ signs in the email, i put that in there by mistake.

  • If the ahoo.com is always at the beginning and always the same length then something like this should work:

    UPDATE tablename SET email = RIGHT(email,len(email) - 8)

    WHERE LEFT(email,8) = 'ahoo.com'

    Robert W. Marda

    SQL Programmer

    bigdough.com

    The world’s leading capital markets contact database and software platform.

    Robert W. Marda
    Billing and OSS Specialist - SQL Programmer
    MCL Systems

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