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replace string in a table

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in MYSQL | No Comments »

If you want to change certain rows in a database where a query applies ... for example an "if" query finding all entries which contain "samplesearchtext"... then run the following script either via mysql/phpmyadmin/php update mytable set myfield =replace (myfield, 'samplesearchtext', ...