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October 19th, 2009, 08:59 AM

ldoodle

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SQL Server 2005 - Bulk Update

Hiya,

We have a table which contains attachments for related cases. These attachments are stored like this:

Y:\Inprotech_Casedocuments\Patent\E30692GB\2008-1-29-E30692GB-EPT Client Report Filing National Phase.doc
Y:\Inprotech_Casedocuments\Patent\G30692GB\2008-1-29-G30692GB-EPT Client Report Filing National Phase.doc

I need to update all of them (nearly 84000 records!) to remove the first folder and create a folder out of the main folder names first letter. So the above would become:

Y:\Patent\E\E30692GB\2008-1-29-E30692GB-EPT Client Report Filing National Phase.doc
Y:\Patent\G\G30692GB\2008-1-29-G30692GB-EPT Client Report Filing National Phase.doc

Thanks

October 25th, 2009, 06:58 PM

gregory.owen@hp

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You can sometimes accomplish this with t-sql using a clever update statement, however in this case you may need to use a regular expression. t-sql doesn't provide that, but CLR does. Here's an article.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163473.aspx

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