REPLACE (Transact-SQL)
SQL Server 2008
Replaces all occurrences of a specified string value with another string value.
REPLACE performs comparisons based on the collation of the input. To perform a comparison in a specified collation, you can use COLLATE to apply an explicit collation to the input.
The following example replaces the string cde in abcdefghi with xxx.
SELECT REPLACE('abcdefghicde','cde','xxx');
GO
Here is the result set.
------------ abxxxfghixxx (1 row(s) affected)
The following example uses the COLLATE function.
SELECT REPLACE('Das ist ein Test' COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN,
'Test', 'desk' );
GO
Here is the result set.
------------ Das ist ein desk (1 row(s) affected)
