[dba-SQLServer] SQL Nightmares

I really need a method of updating a field using a udf or something.  That
way I could tell it to run and just feed it field names to run it on.
Unfortunately UDFs are something I have never done. 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Nielsen
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:08 PM
To: 'Discussion concerning MS SQL Server'
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] SQL Nightmares

Hi John,

For the house number...
  select cast('000120' as int)


for the streetname...
  declare @col VARCHAR(25)
  set @col = '00000000012st'
  select right(@col,len(@col)-patindex ('%[^0]%', at col)+1)

-Paul 







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[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:29 PM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-SQLServer] SQL Nightmares

I have another (different) database from hell.  This one has data fields
like 

HOUSENUMBER		StreetName		StreetUnit
00000006		000012th		Place

As you can see, if I do a simple append, then I get something like

00000006 000012th Place.

I can tell you that won't fly.  So I need to strip off leading zeros, pretty
much in ALL my fields, but at the very least in a fixed set of fields.  How
do I do this in SQL, bearing in mind that this table has 90 million records
and taking a week for one field is out of the question.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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