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

If you are working with SQL Server 2005 or later there is also a CLR library available at http://www.sqlsharp.com/ that provides .NET implementations of string and RegEx functions which, depending on your volume and type of data may be easier to use and in some cases the .NET string manipulation functions can be more efficient than T-SQL ones.