Hi Stephen,

I don't know Oracle, but what about

UPDATE equipment SET description=LTRIM(description) WHERE description like ' %'

>Hello All
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>Quick question, I have been handed a oracle database that I can only access via SQL statements, in one of my tables I have a field called description and over 37,000 of the recorder begin with a space;
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>“ CPU, DESKTOP 1.5ghz”
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>I can do a SQL statement to retrieve select * from equipment where equipment.description like ‘ %’
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>But to save my life I can not figure out how to do a SQL UPDATE to replace all of the description with description minus the leading space
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>Any help in any way will be greatly appreciated
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>Thanks
>Stephen McLaughlin