title: What is the MySQL query equivalent of PHP strip_tags?
body: <p>I have a large database which contains records that have <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> tags in them and I would like to remove them. Of course there is the method where I create a PHP script that selects all, uses <code>strip_tags</code> and updates the database, but this takes a long time. So how can I do this with a simple (or complicated) MySQL query?</p>