Comments on: SQL SERVER – TRIM() Function – UDF TRIM()

By: iswariya

iswariya — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:49:08 +0000

i need replace Single Quotes :
my input is : who’s,this,book’s
i want the output is : whos
this
books

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:52:20 +0000

You need to use PIVOT. Refer this
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2008/08/27/dynamic-pivot-in-sql-server-2005.aspx

By: Sahil

Sahil — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:46:16 +0000

Hi,
I am using SQL 2008, and am trying to insert value from table 1 to table 2 with multi records from table1 column “Description” and would like to populate in 1 unique record into table 2.

I have given an example below;

TABLE 1

PATIENT_ID DESCCRIPTION

2771 MOTRIN TAB
2771 TYLENOLTAB
2771 ZANTAC TAB

2775 ABC TAB
2775 123 TAB
2775 XYZ TAB

Example: Copy values from table 1 into table 2 with single row;

TABLE 2

PATIENT_ID DESCRIPTION

2771 MOTRIN TAB,TYLENOL TAB,ZANTAC TAB
2775 ABC TAB, 123 TAB, XYZ TAB

Thanks

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:53:53 +0000

It means that the empcode has spaces as part of it. You need to use trim functions

By: Zubius

Zubius — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:56:57 +0000

Abdul -
SELECT *
FROM Employee
Where empcode LIKE ‘%E123%′

By: Abdul Awwal Chaudhary

Abdul Awwal Chaudhary — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:46:53 +0000

If I use
SELECT *
FROM Employee
Where LTRIM(RTRIM((empcode)) = ‘E123′

It return the result but if I omit the LTRIM and RTRIM , it shows no record found.
How to get the result without using LTRIM and RTRIM

By: Hemant Ramteke

Hemant Ramteke — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:32:47 +0000

In sql server TRIM function not found to trim data , but it provides LTRIM for left trim & RTRIM for right trim .

By: Hemant Ramteke

Hemant Ramteke — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:30:38 +0000

select LTRIM(RTRIM(columnname)) as outputcolumn from tablename

By: cusman78

cusman78 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:20:47 +0000

Try:
SELECT REPLACE(‘ All m y spaces will be re moved ‘,’ ‘,”)

By: friendlink1

friendlink1 — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:30:58 +0000

I have to bind a nvarchar column to sql reporting services, and need to format it, if it has space between the 2 lines. Kindly help me how to do it?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:11:40 +0000

You cannot use trim function to remove a comma. Use replace function

select replace(col,’,',”) from table

By: H.Phaninder Reddy

H.Phaninder Reddy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:08:33 +0000

How can i remove middle characters from a string?
eg: phaninder,reddy is a name……..i would like to remove ‘,’ from this name using trim function..pls give me the query…..

By: Arunkumar

Arunkumar — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:50:20 +0000

Hi..I’m facing a problem from containstable in sql server.I wrote a search procedure including containstable.the results came fine.but i’m facing problem with the search strings “all” and “h&a”.i didn’t got any result when using these strings.but in table keywords(All and H&A) is there can u please help to me for avoid the problem.

By: jyothsna

jyothsna — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:37:20 +0000

Hi.
I am using MS SQL 2008. I have a table X in DB which has some y columns. One of the column values has spaces suffixed and LTRIM, RTRIM is not working. Please let me kow if there is any other way to get rid of spaces.

By: Uday

Uday — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:43:19 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I am having an issue while trimming the below word.

ETF factsheets request

Select RTrim(Len(Comments)), Comments from De_Activity Where [ID] = 1470
Select LTrim(Len(Comments)), LTrim(Comments) from De_Activity Where [ID] = 1470

Total length of string is 28 (Sql). But when I do the trim in excel I get len as 22.

I have used charindex to find ‘E’, output was 4.
So there are 3 spaces before E, but are not getting trimmed.

Regards,
Uday

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:11:00 +0000

why not just do LTRIM(RTRIM(COLUMN_NAME)) ?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:52:03 +0000

select left(email,charindex(‘@’,email)-1)

By: Nani

Nani — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:11:48 +0000

hi this is nani,

Can anyone tell me how to get email id value with out alias name like.. i hav id “naresh@softsolvers.co.my” i want only “naresh” for result..
please help..
thanq,

By: Soumyajyoti

Soumyajyoti — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:57:37 +0000

I am using SQL SERVER 2005..
I am able to trim values using LTRIM with the following
SELECT LTRIM(‘ ZAM000000017′) it is giving proper value as ZAM000000017
But when I am trying to use Update Statement to update the value
Update INTERMEDIATE_ISIN
Set ISIN_CODE = LTRIM(ISIN_CODE);

is not working…. !!!

Please help

By: Navin

Navin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:15:33 +0000

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how to call any UDF without schema name?

I have created Trim function but while calling it my requirement is i should not use dbo.Trim instead i will be using Trim only. is there any way to do that?

I have tried creating sys.Trim also but it is throwing me error as

The specified schema name “sys” either does not exist or you do not have permission to use it.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

By: chenz

chenz — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:24:17 +0000

While the trim() is convenient, it, as with all UDFs in SQL Server, can be a performance hog. Run the following and you can see a dramatic difference. I ran on SQL Server 2008:

create function dbo.Trim
(
@string varchar(max)
)
returns varchar(max) as
begin

return( rtrim(ltrim(@string)) );

end;
go

declare
@i integer = 0,
@dummy varchar(10),
@start datetime;

set @start = current_timestamp;
while (@i < 10000) begin

set @dummy = dbo.trim( ' foo bar ');
set @i = @i + 1;

end;

print 'UDF: ' + cast(datediff( millisecond, @start, current_timestamp) as varchar);

set @i = 0;

set @start = current_timestamp;
while (@i < 10000) begin

set @dummy = rtrim(ltrim(' foo bar '));
set @i = @i + 1;

end;
print 'Built-ins: ' + cast(datediff( millisecond, @start, current_timestamp) as varchar);

My results consistently show the UDF taking about 30 times longer to perform.

By: Haripriya

Haripriya — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:48:21 +0000

nice sir … actually this much only my mind works… gr8…

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:39:50 +0000

Here are the shortcuts

select RIGHT(@hp,charindex(‘/’,reverse(@hp))-1)
select RIGHT(@hp1,charindex(‘/’,reverse(@hp1))-1)

By: Haripriya

Haripriya — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:53:09 +0000

Hi dude..
For that use replace command….
that means replace space to no space…

eg:select replace(‘ Hari priya ‘,’ ‘,”)

By: Haripriya

Haripriya — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:46:23 +0000

Hi dude,

Pls avoid using # table. while ur server get restarted or any network issue u will lose ur table.. use table and finally truncate it… this wont occupy much space too… ur coding correct anyhow..