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removing certain characters

Posted 18 Aug 2006 20:28:34
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18 Aug 2006 20:28:34 Justin Pfenning posted:
Hello all,

I have a table named users. It consists of user names, user ids, etc... The problem is that whoever designed the ASP code before me allowed people to enter info in any format they want. This poses a problem because now the name can have 1, 2, or sometimes 3 spaces in between the first and last names. And sometimes the middle initial is used with a period following it. This creates problems when I am trying to execute a Select statement since it won't match if there are an unknown number of spaces in between names and throws an error when a period is used.

Is there a SQL query I can execute to change all the user_names into a format such as the following:
LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial

Like I said, it is already almost the same, just has too many spaces and some have periods after the middle initial

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