Sat 31 2013

Useful mysql to remove / in a db column
by bernt & torsten
Here is a handy sql statement for removing a trailing ‘/’ in the column url
UPDATE websites SET url = LEFT(url, LENGTH(url) - 1) WHERE RIGHT(url, 1) = '/'

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