I use Oracle but below is how I would try it in SQL-Server: update tablename set fieldname = concat(substring(fieldname, 1, (length(fieldname) - 7)), 'FY16-Q1') where fieldname like '%FY15-Q2' It would probably be helpful to explain what I am doing in the `substring()` function so here it goes: > Update fieldname to be itself but remove the unwanted 7 chars `FY15-Q2` at the end and instead concat the string with FY16-Q1