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mbencomo

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March 16, 2009 at 3:03 pm

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HAVE A FIELD 'ZIPCODE' WHERE ALL THE NUMBERS ARE TOGEATHER, NEED TO CHANGE THEM TO WHERE THE ZIPCODE IS 5 + 4 IE INSERT THE DASH '-'

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Bruce W Cassidy SSChampion Points: 12668 More actions · Answer 1

[font="Verdana"]Look up the STUFF() function in SQL Server Books Online.[/font]

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004378 More actions · Answer 2

Heh... "Survey says... ding, ding, ding, ding, ding... STUFF! Look it up in Books Online". Bruce is spot on.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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