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Remove special characters from a database field

I have a database with several thousand records, and I need to strip down one of the fields to ensure that it only contains certain characters (Alphanumeric, spaces, and single quotes). What SQL can I use to strip any other characters (such as slashes, etc) from that field in the whole database?

Solution 
  • update mytable
set FieldName = REPLACE(FieldName,'/','')

    That's a good place to start.