RE: Oracle SQL help

  • From: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oratips@xxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:14:52 -0500

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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.

--
Bala Rao


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