I'm trying to do a join on two pieces of data that are not quite
exactly the same. Basic story, I have 2 tables (output from 2
mainframes) in MySQL where one table has our email addresses as
@wncc.edu (our old name) and the other has it as @wnc.edu (our new
name). So here is an abbreviated version of the query that is trying
to match them, and it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

SELECT * FROM schedule
LEFT JOIN directory ON
( REPLACE('@wncc.edu','@wnc.edu',schedule.email) = directory.email )

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Kevin Murphy
Webmaster: Information and Marketing Services
Western Nevada College
www.wnc.edu
775-445-3326

P.S. Please note that my e-mail and website address have changed from
wncc.edu to wnc.edu.

How about this ...

update schedule s
join directory d on s.email = replace(d.email, '@wnc.edu', '@wncc.edu')
set s.email=replace(s.email, '@wncc.edu', '@wnc.edu' );

PB

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Kevin Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to do a join on two pieces of data that are not quite
> exactly the same. Basic story, I have 2 tables (output from 2
> mainframes) in MySQL where one table has our email addresses as
> @wncc.edu (our old name) and the other has it as @wnc.edu (our new
> name). So here is an abbreviated version of the query that is trying
> to match them, and it doesn't work. Any suggestions?
>
> SELECT * FROM schedule
> LEFT JOIN directory ON
> ( REPLACE('@wncc.edu','@wnc.edu',schedule.email) =
> directory.email )
>
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