How do I do a simple 'Find and Replace" in MsSQL?

Question

Question is pretty self explanitory. I want to do a simple find and replace, like you would in a text editor on the data in a column of my database (which is MsSQL on MS Win

Answer 1

like so:

BEGIN TRANSACTION; 
UPDATE table_name
  SET column_name=REPLACE(column_name,'text_to_find','replace_with_this'); 
COMMIT TRANSACTION;

Example: Replaces

BEGIN TRANSACTION; UPDATE testdb
SET title=REPLACE(title,'script','a'); COMMIT TRANSACTION;