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Old 10-27-2011
Replacing a string in an entire mysql Database
Hi,

Can someone please tell me how I can replace every occurrence of a string with another string, in the entire mysql database?

What this means is, i just dont want to operate table by table. I want to search the database and automatically replace the string /opt/cacti/scripts/ with /apps/cacti/scripts.

thanks
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Old 10-30-2011
Did you look into one of the standard databases that comes with mysql, called information_schema? In there you will find a table from which the column names can be derived. Dont have mysql here, so cant check it, but it should be easy to create a nested query that can ultimately be used to do the replace. See also here: Updating Records in Mysql Database
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