Double quotes replacement

Hi,

It seems to be simple, however, it stumbles me.
how to replace all the double quotes (") within the following
sentence (or a column) with single quotes ('),

colA = this is a freaking "silly" thing to do
into
colA this is a freaking 'silly' thing to do

Select Replace(colA,'"',''')
>From tblXYZ

won't work,

Select Replace(colA,'"',"'")
>From tblXYZ

won't work neither.

How come? Thanks.You need to specify 2 single quotes within the literal string when 1 quote
is desired. Try:

Select Replace(colA,'"','''')
From tblXYZ

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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

"NickName" <dadada@.rock.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> It seems to be simple, however, it stumbles me.
> how to replace all the double quotes (") within the following
> sentence (or a column) with single quotes ('),
> colA = this is a freaking "silly" thing to do
> into
> colA this is a freaking 'silly' thing to do
> Select Replace(colA,'"',''')
>>From tblXYZ
> won't work,
> Select Replace(colA,'"',"'")
>>From tblXYZ
> won't work neither.
> How come? Thanks.|||Thank you very much, Dan, works perfect.

On a related note, BOL does not cover it, how could one find a solution
to a problem similar to this one without resorting to this NG?|||I found this from the 'quotation marks' entry in the Books Online index.
From the 'Using char and varchar data' topic:

<Excerpt href="http://links.10026.com/?link=acdata.chm::/ac_8_con_03_7mch.htm">
When using single quotation marks to delimit a character constant that
contains an embedded single quotation mark, use two single quotation marks
to represent the embedded single quotation mark, for example:

SET @.MyCharVar = 'O''Leary'
</Excerpt
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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

"NickName" <dadada@.rock.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much, Dan, works perfect.
> On a related note, BOL does not cover it, how could one find a solution
> to a problem similar to this one without resorting to this NG?|||Man, I can't read, ok, not careful, thanks.