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Asked by dpwhite in MS SQL Server, SQL Server 2005
I have a 3rd party application using SQL 2005. One table (PHYSICIANS) contains a column ( NOTES) with a TEXT datatype that was implicitly set to 'NULL' at the point of initial table INSERT, i.e., the INSERTed column was empty. The presence of 'NULL' in this column is causing a pop-up window to appear in the application that must be acknowledged by the users. I need to replace the 'NULL' with a blank field. I have tried using UPDATETEXT and WRITETEXT, but these require a pointer. Since the text column is not initialized by SQL Server when 'NULL' values are implicitly INSERTED, no pointer can be obtained for such nulls. How can I get rid of these 'NULL's and and replace them with a blank (empty) field?
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USE FAC;
GO
ALTER DATABASE FAC SET RECOVERY SIMPLE
GO
DECLARE @PTRVAL BINARY(16)
SELECT @PTRVAL =TEXTPTR(NOTES)
FROM PHYSICIANS$ NOTES
WHERE NOTES IS NULL
WRITETEXT PHYSICIANS$.NOTES @PTRVAL ' '
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20091021-EE-VQP-81 / EE_QW_2_20070628
