Help For Trimming Leading And Trailing Spaces
Jan 7, 2008
Hi
Is there any way to trim all the leading and trailing spaces in all the column in a table.
JigJan
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Preserve Leading And Trailing White Spaces On Report
Dec 27, 2007I spent huge amount of time figuring out how to preserve lading and trailing white spaces on report display without success. Can anyone help me here?
My problem is I have data with leading and or trailing white spaces and I need to show it as is. In designer preview it shows correct values. As soon as report is published and accessed on web, it truncates the whitespaces . I had a look at source, it shows values are correctly fetched(with spaces) but are ignored while rendering. I also tried replacing blank space with , however it reads this as  .
I am using asp.net 2.0 and SQL serer 2005 reporting services.
Trimming Leading Zeros
May 31, 2007mssql 2000, asp.net(vbscript)
How am i able to trim leading zeros? Right now i have two values:00000005 500000010 1000000015 15..... etc...
how do i write a query where i can select an argument where 5 = 0000005?
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Example:
" 601274" needs to be "601274". Does anyone know the syntax?+
Trailing Spaces
Apr 28, 2003If I run SELECT Len(' ') it returns 0, if SELECT Len('a ') it returns 1
I need this to return the correct length including the space that on the end. I thought it was an ansi_padding problem but even turning padding on results in a 0 length. Any ideas? Thanks!
Todd
Trailing Spaces - Such A Pain...
Dec 31, 2006Hi All... I'm using a SQL Server 2005 database. I've noticed that columns that are declared as "char" and that have a fixed size tend to put trailing spaces at the end of the data when I pull it out. I guess I can understand why... But it's a pain dealing with it. As I'm bringing my application up, I can see spaces all over the place - I just havent gotten around to doing anything about it yet. What's the easiest/best way to get rid of those spaces. Geez, it'd be real cool if I could put something in the SELECT statement. Any thoughts? Thanks much!! -- Curt
Trailing Spaces Added To All Fields
Mar 15, 2006For some reason, there are extra trailing spaces being added to all my
data as it is placed in the db. I am collecting information from,
processing a TRIM-like function in javascript, and then again in the
ASP.net code before it is being placed in the db.
The extra spaces are causing problems with my application.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Move Trailing Spaces To Front
Aug 29, 2001I have a column that is varchar(12) that the data was entered left justified
such as '12345 ' with trailing spaces. I need to move the number to be right justified to link with another table so it looks like ' 12345'. I looked at the right command and could not find a solution. An ideas?
Thanks
How To Get Values From Column With Trailing Spaces
Jul 23, 2013Performing security audit using command to retrieve data from Active Director about security groups and drop results into local tbl for analysis.
EXEC xp_cmdshell 'net group "AnalyticsDev" /domain'
Problem is the col created to store result is varchar(1000) and can hold 1-3 values (loginIDs) per row with lots of trailing/white space.
E.g. (EmpID101, EmpID250 EmpID10)
Is there a technique to extract the needed value (loginIDs) from col?
Export Data Without Trailing Spaces
Jul 23, 2005Hello,when I export data from a table to a text file, I get trailing spacesif the data type in char. (This dosen't happen if the data type isvarchar). I can get rid of the spaces by using the trim() function onevery signle column. here is an example:DTSDestination("first_name") = DTSSource("last_name")My question is:Is there any easier way to get ride of the training spaces for allcolumns when exporing a table? It is too time consuming if I have totype trim() for every single column in the table.Thank you in advance,Eddy
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Nov 14, 2006Hi All,
I have a column which has some white spaces that I suspect is tab delimeted one. So when I use a rtrim(col1) it would not trim those. So i used a scrip component and wrote this line,
Row.trimDetail = RTrim(Row.detail)
here trimdetail is an o/p column and detail is the input col with the trailing spaces.
but still I don know why the column has that spaces. Can someone help me to figure out what is the problem ?
Thanks in advance,
Trailing Spaces In Nvarchar Columns
Nov 30, 2007
Hi All,
For €œnvarchar€? column if we pass the value as spaces, then it stores as space.
Eg:
declare @path nvarchar(50)
set @path = ' '
select '=>' + @path + '<='
Is there any setting / configuration that will force it to automatically trim the spaces and store it as null?
Thanks in Advance,
Palani
Pad Trailing Spaces In A Report Expression
Sep 14, 2007I am trying to pad a fixed number of trailing spaces into a report expression, as follows:
Data:
CUSTOMER_NAME-------------MichaelPeterJohn
Result (e.g. with 10 spaces padded, assuming all names are below 10 characters long):
"Michael ""Peter ""John "
Is there an easy way to achieve this ?
Thanks.
Kenny
Values Entered In Db Has Trailing White Spaces
Apr 24, 2006Hi, I'm inserting a few columns into my db (they all have a nvarchar(50) ).. but i noticed when i retrieve them out of the db, the length of the string always have some trailing white spaces behind them and such when I try to do stuff like dropdownlist.items.findbyvalue(), it normally fails.I did trace and before the string get into the db, they were teh right length. so I'm not sure where did I do things wrong? thanks
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Transact SQL :: Remove Trailing Spaces From A Column
Aug 31, 2015The table I have is:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[FTE2015](
[Firm Number] [varchar](50) NULL,
[w9] [varchar](50) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
select * from dbo.FTE2015
Firm Number w9
709485"" Â 0
040898A" 12.5
709502"" 2.4
041382"" 0.4
709503"" 0.3
709681"" Â 4.9
How do I remove the trailing blanks? I tried RTRIM but it does not work.
SELECT RTRIM([Firm Number])
FROM dbo.FTE2015;
(No column name)
709485""
040898A"
709502""
041382""
709503""
How can I resolve this? The [Firm Number]column is not of a fixed length.
Find Leading Spaces
Aug 23, 2001What is the best way to check for leading spaces in your table, using ltrim?
Such as TableA(name, city)
the data in TableA Smith Dallas
John New York
Greg Richmond
David Chicago
Return only David.
Trailing Spaces On Output Parameter Of SQL Task - Different Behavior On Different Machines
Dec 20, 2007
Hello Everyone,
I've seen many entries about trailing spaces but have not found one like this.
In the Control Flow I am using an "Execute SQL Task" to populate some SSIS local variables (type string) by: (1) executing a SQL stored proc with output variables (type varchar(100)) to (2) be mapped to the local variable name (the parameter mapping Data Type is VARCHAR).
One of these mapped outputs is used as a path for subsequent operation in the Control Flow. At execution the sproc fires, populating the local variable with the path but with trailing spaces out to 255. Later in the "Script Task" when that path is used I receive an error telling me that the path is too long, and something about 260 or 246 characters.
Here's the oddity. I have two desktop environments running XP and a server environment (server 2003). This package runs just fine on the server - no trailing space issue, no need to trim. But on both my desktops I get the errors. By adding trim statements I can get back the correct path, but varchars should not be including trailing spaces, and the sproc return variable is a varchar (100).
I know this soulds like numerous other posts which indicate the solution is to trim, but I think the question I am asking is why does it work on the server but not the desktop? Is the SSIS variable type string experiencing a bug on different OS's?
Not to further complicate the issue but it used to work on my laptop, but through a horrible sequence of events I had to reload the studio in which case the error started to happen on that too.
Keeping Trailing Spaces On Function Returning Nvarchar(4000)
Mar 21, 2008I'm trying desparately to write a PadRight function in SQL Server 2005. I seem to be failing miserably because the trailing spaces disappear when the data is returned. First of all, why does SQL Server think I want my string trimmed? And second, how do I overcome this? Code below:
Code Snippet
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[PadRight]
(
@sourceString NVARCHAR(4000),
@length INT,
@padCharacter NCHAR(1) = ' ',
@trimBeforePadding BIT = 1
)
RETURNS NVARCHAR(4000) AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @returnStringLength AS INT, @toReturn AS NVARCHAR(4000)
SET @toReturn = LEFT(@sourceString, @length)
IF @trimBeforePadding = 1
SET @toReturn = RTRIM(LTRIM(@toReturn))
SET @returnStringLength = LEN(@toReturn)
IF @returnStringLength < @length
SET @toReturn = @toReturn + REPLICATE(@padCharacter, @length - @returnStringLength)
RETURN @toReturn
END
GO
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Feb 21, 2008
In SQL Reporting I want the user to pass a parameter to the report; the parameter is a employee number. Easy right, you write a where statement like where table_name.employee_number =@employee_number. When the user runs the report they€™re asked to type in the number.
My problem is the dB stores the employee number with leading spaces padding the number out to 9, so if the user types in 1 they get jack, but if they type in €˜ 1€™ they get the right employee. I can€™t roll it out that way
I€™d do something in the where clause so the user could just type in 1 & it would auto pad out to 9 spaces. I€™ve tried using the €˜LIKE€™ clause & I€™ve tried using concatenate but so far neither works well.
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Thanks -- Vince
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Mar 16, 2004Hi,
Probably easy but I'd like the best way to do it:
I have a datetime column with A LOT of rows. I'd like a select statement to return each date with everything after the hour part set to zero.
For example, if my column has the following values:
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Skip.
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Jul 19, 2006Hi
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