I've tried using
but I get a syntax error message.
TIA!
Leafgreen

try

Hi again Rudy! Long time

Actually I tried that before. It ran without errors but didn't remove the \ character.

let's clarify

according to your posted attempt, you have some column values consisting of only the backslash, and you want to set those value to nothing?

or, as i suspect, what you want instead is to remove the backslashes but leave whatever else is there?

Yes, the latter. Or, replace \' with '

Yes, this worked! But it worked in PHPMyAdmin and did not work in MySQL-Front, which is the interface I normally love for direct db access. What's your favority MySQL interface on Windows?

heidisql

Just checked it out. Looks incredible! And free no less. Thank you.

...other MySQL interfaces are available, such as MYSQL Query browser available from the MySQL site