Adding a + in front of telephone numbers

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Adding a + in front of telephone numbers

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KingCarlos
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74 Posts

Posted - 2010-01-12 : 23:09:23

I have the following set of data

Row # Phone_number
1 11111
2 22222
3 33333

How to I update the phone number to have a + in front of each record in one hit.

senthil_nagore
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1007 Posts

Posted - 2010-01-12 : 23:38:35

update table_name set Phone_number='+'+Phone_number

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tkizer
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38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-01-12 : 23:39:56

Assuming the column is a character data type such as varchar:

UPDATE YourTable
SET Phone_Number = '+' + Phone_Number

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KingCarlos
Yak Posting Veteran

74 Posts

Posted - 2010-01-12 : 23:43:55

Thanks Guys ! that worked, wow that was simple,

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