Re: Need suggestion on how best to update 3 million rows

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 04:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Maybe there's an English language "issue", or maybe I'm just
> excessively picky, but using "number" in this context is confusing.

My Bad.. hehe..

> Then I agree with Alban:
>   update table set number = trim(number);
> or, if you need the leading spaces:
>   update table set number = rtrim(number)
>
> Then:
>   update table set number = NULL where number = '';

Dag it.. I wish I didn't live on the other end of the TimeZone and
gotten this answer before I went the "hard way"

oh well.. lesson learned and that's the positive spin on it right?

Thanks a bunch guys..