Update part of the string

Hello,
please, I have million of records and I need to replace LAST THREE characters, regardless of what they are, in column that is always of the same length e.g.,1234abc need to be:
1234000
i.e., to keep first four characters!
thanks

Hi,
If your column data type is of datatype varchar(max) or nvarchar(max)
you can use the WRITE clause in the UPDATE statment
DROP TABLE tblupdatewrite
CREATE TABLE tblupdatewrite
c1 VARCHAR(MAX)
INSERT INTO tblupdatewrite
SELECT '12345abc'
UPDATE tblupdatewrite
SET C1.WRITE('000',LEN(C1)-3,3)
SELECT * FROM tblupdatewrite
Best Regards Sorna

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