how to find and replace a word in a mysql column?

Question

I have a column containing list of streets. I need to replace 'street' with 'St'. The replacement can be made in the current column or in a new column with the address in the required format. The following is the sample data. 'Column 1' contains the data in current format. 'Column 2' contains the data in the desired format.

Column 1         Column 2 Hillary Street   Hillary St Golf Road        Golf Road Oldwood Street   Oldwood St 

How do I do this?

Edit:

This query works for this:

UPDATE table SET column = REPLACE(column, 'Street', 'St'); 

Is it possible to set a rule to this column. Such that all data added to this get formatted this way automatically? Or I need to repeat this query each time?

Answer 1

Run a query like this to update in the same column:

UPDATE table     SET column = REPLACE(column, 'Street', 'St'); 

Answer 2

So, if i understand correctly, you want to modify the data on the database based on wether or not you're using the word street. I think this is the call u need.

update [table_name] set [field_name] = replace([field_name],'[string_to_find]','[string_to_replace]'); 

I think this is the method you need to use, so your ending code will look something like

update myTable set address = replace(address,'street','St'); 

Is this what you meant?