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From Rich Shepard
Subject Re: Removing terminal period from varchar string in table column
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Msg-id 82b6a40-ccf5-2b2a-815a-b5673dfd748b@appl-ecosys.com
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In response to Re: Removing terminal period from varchar string in table column  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Thom Brown wrote:

> UPDATE companies
> SET company_name = rtrim(company_name, '.')
> WHERE company_name != rtrim(company_name, '.');

Thom,

That makes sense. The web pages I read assumed I knew to use the UPDATE
command. As this was the first time I needed to clean column content I
didn't assume that update was the appropriate mechanism. Now I do.

Thanks,

Rich

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