Also be prepared to wait for this proc to run if you have a large DB!

stas wrote:

>Neil, yes, that's in the source data. I would appreciate your help. I never have enough time to learn more advanced TSQL. Thanks!
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>  From: Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia]
>  To: SQL
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:46 PM
>  Subject: Re: DTS script question
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>  Is this in the data itself? This can be done in T-SQL easily....let me
>  know if this is what you mean and we can work out a script.
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>  stas wrote:
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>  >I have a list of names and some of them have illegal (to my application)
>  >characters. For example, I may have a first name as 'Stas Jr.", while I am
>  >only looking for 'Stas' - however, I'd settle for just 'StasJR' as well. How
>  >would I go about writing a script that would basically strip out any
>  >non-alpha chars from any given script? I know how to do basic transformation
>  >within a DTS transformation, is it just a matter of me picking up some
>  >VBscript fast? I know this is a Regex job...
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>  >Thanks
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