UPDATE and REPLACE part of a string

Question

I\'ve got a table with two columns, ID and Value. I want to change a part of some strings in the second column.

Example of Table:

Answer 1

You don't need wildcards in the REPLACE - it just finds the string you enter for the second argument, so the following should work:

UPDATE dbo.xxx
SET Value = REPLACE(Value, '123\', '')
WHERE ID <=4

(I also added the \ in the replace as I assume you don't need that either)