MySQL find/replace

Colin A. Bartlett — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:35:00 -0400

NEAT!

I just discovered (thanks Google!) that you can do find/replace within strings inside a MySQL table. In this case, I had to push a website live that contained product descriptions in which the client had referenced the development site URL. So:


update products set description = replace(description, 'beta.', 'www.');

Worked like a charm. I was about to do a mysqldump and do something with sed and grep and then have to re-import the table. But this worked great.

has_many :thoughts: MySQL find/replace

MySQL find/replace