[thelist] SQL SELECT and RegEx

[Jeffrey Barke]

>> Ps.  The bad news is it's Access not MS SQL or MySQL.

Sorry--missed the fact that it was Access.

> With Access you are severely limited.  Unless there are extremely  
> uncommon
> circumstances at foot, there's little to no reason to stick with  
> that--I'd
> highly recommend that you switch to MS SQL Server or something more
> powerful.  Search for MSDE to find a free version of SQL Server.


I agree with Joshua. I would never use Access in a production  
environment.

> Is it possible to run an SQL SELECT statement and apply a
> regular expression
> to a field that will manipulate the data returned at the time
> of running the
> SELECT?


However, you can still use Access's Replace() function to remove  
specific tags.

Jeffrey

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On Dec 12, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Joshua Olson wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Dempsey
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:46 PM
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to run an SQL SELECT statement and apply a
>> regular expression
>> to a field that will manipulate the data returned at the time
>> of running the
>> SELECT?
>>
>> Ps.  The bad news is it's Access not MS SQL or MySQL.
>
> Chris,
>
> With Access you are severely limited.  Unless there are extremely  
> uncommon
> circumstances at foot, there's little to no reason to stick with  
> that--I'd
> highly recommend that you switch to MS SQL Server or something more
> powerful.  Search for MSDE to find a free version of SQL Server.
>
> Then, you can have access to UDFs, which then gives you the ability  
> to use
> Regex:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/khen1234/archive/2005/05/11/416392.aspx
>
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