How do you strip a character out of a column in SQL Server?

Question

How do you remove a value out of a string in SQL Server?

Answer 1

Take a look at the following function - REPLACE():

select replace(DataColumn, StringToReplace, NewStringValue)

//example to replace the s in test with the number 1
select replace('test', 's', '1')
//yields te1t

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186862.aspx

EDIT
If you want to remove a string, simple use the replace function with an empty string as the third parameter like:

select replace(DataColumn, 'StringToRemove', '')