Someone in the office figured out that CAST() works...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx>Well, Chad that works great! However, I just checked the second table and it is text not char so it doesn't work on that. What would work with a text field type in sql server?
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>>Tracy,
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>>Just RTRIM() the name inside the ISNULL().
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>>HTH,
>>Chad
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>>>update tbl_main set name = isnull(name,'') +' MORE STUFF TO ADD TO NAME FIELD' where my_id = '01-011'
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>>>Why not? It returns string or binary data would be truncated.
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>>>Cannot do this either because it is a char:
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>>>update tbl_main set name .write (N' MORE STUFF',NULL,0) where my_id = '01-011'
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