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ICEcoffee

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Hi all

I have imported a table from an ODBC database into MySQL, but all the data in all the columns are surounded by quotation marks.

Can anyone tell me how to write a query I can execute, to update all fields, to delete said quotation marks.


Thanks for any help, it will save me hours of work.
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Do you have a "dumped" database in a text file?  Can you write a perl script (w/ a regular expression) to excise the quotes?  (Then reimport the data....)

Actually this might be easier...:

If you already have the data in the database, you can use something like the following:
[code]UPDATE mytable SET mytextcolumn1=TRIM(BOTH '"' FROM mytextcolumn1),
mytextcolumn2=TRIM(BOTH '"' FROM mytextcolumn2);[/code]
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