{"id":1655,"date":"2009-12-21T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2009-12-21T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T22:15:20","slug":"mysql-find-replace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"MySQL Find & Replace"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an artefact to upgrading my database from mySQL 4.0 to mySQL 5.0 (so I could apply the latest WordPress update), I noticed a whole heap of\u00a0 ‘\u00c2’ symbols had appeared in my previous posts.<\/p>\n

I started to edit them out, then realised there must be a better way. Thanks to Brad J Frey’s blog<\/a>, I fixed it in about 15 seconds.<\/p>\n

All you have to do is log into your PHPMyAdmin control panel for the database you want to change, then choose the SQL button, as shown here:<\/p>\n

\"PHPMyAdmin

PHPMyAdmin For Database<\/p><\/div>\n

This opens up a window – make sure you select the SQL tab:<\/p>\n

\"MySQL

MySQL Query Window<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the query I used to get rid of the \u00c2 symbols:<\/p>\n

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_content = replace(post_content,”\u00c2”,””); <\/p>\n

The general format is:<\/p>\n

UPDATE `tablename` SET fieldname = replace(fieldname,”what-to-replace”,”what-to-replace-with”); <\/p>\n

Just hit GO and the replace operation\u00a0is done very quickly.<\/p>\n

EDIT 22\/12\/2009: But even better than this, I found a plugin for WordPress which does the search and replace for you. Thanks to <\/strong> thedeadone.net<\/strong> for that. It’s much better.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an artefact to upgrading my database from mySQL 4.0 to mySQL 5.0 (so I could apply the latest WordPress update), I noticed a whole heap of\u00a0 ‘\u00c2’ symbols had appeared in my previous posts. I started to edit them out, then realised there must be a better way. Thanks to Brad J Frey’s blog, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t