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                                         Blessed1978 
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                                             Posted - 2014-08-06 : 11:59:03
                                            
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                                            | I have a table that has  60 columns. 80% of those rows has  quotes included  example "407412547" ,"otfde". and they are in different columns. I would like to remove the quotes so that it looks like 407412547,otfde.   i  can remove the quotes from each column with a simple update statement but instead of doing my updates for each individual column i would like to do it for my entire table. PLEASE ASIST | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     tkizer 
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                                            Posted - 2014-08-06 : 12:29:21
                                          
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                                          | You can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view to build a dynamic string that you can then execute. Here's an example:select 'update ' + table_name + ' set ' + column_name + ' = replace(' + column_name + ', ''"'', '''')'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNSTara KizerSQL Server MVP since 2007http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/  | 
                                         
                                        
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