Find and Replace text in the entire table using a MySQL query

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For a single table update 

 UPDATE `table_name`
 SET `field_name` = replace(same_field_name, 'unwanted_text', 'wanted_text')

From multiple tables–

If you want to edit from all tables, best way is to take the dump and then find/replace and upload it back.

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