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

By: Anjibabu Kamma

Anjibabu Kamma — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:56:12 +0000

SELECT REPLACE (REPLACE ('who’s,this,book’s','’',''),',',' ')

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By: tomar

tomar — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:36:59 +0000

hi,
i have a problem, want to retrieve & from table in asp.net page .
but the result is & is display in textbox please sort out this problem

By: Shivani

Shivani — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:48:39 +0000

Hello, my doubt is can we use ltrim/rtrim on integers and date variables.
this works pretty well, but certain coding standards avoid the use of trimming integer or date variables. Can you please suggest why so?

By: aniruddha

aniruddha — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:27:01 +0000

hi
how can i select data that contains in [ ] in sql column.
e.g.i have a column that contains large data in that col i have some data as -
employee name is [emp_name] and job description is [job_desc].
and i want to select only [emp_name] using sql qry n display it in stringbuilder.
thanks

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By: Franny Mac

Franny Mac — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:48:53 +0000

Thank you for your post!

I was looking for a function to turn any number of consecutive spaces into a single space, for example ‘I love Pinal Dave’ -> ‘I love Pinal Dave’. I came up with…

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.SPACEOUT(@string VARCHAR(255))
RETURNS VARCHAR(255)
BEGIN
DECLARE @doublespaceindex TINYINT,
@tempstring VARCHAR(255)
SET @doublespaceindex = CHARINDEX(‘ ‘,@string)
WHILE @doublespaceindex > 0
BEGIN
SET @string = REPLACE(@string,’ ‘,’ ‘)
SET @doublespaceindex = CHARINDEX(‘ ‘,@string)
END
RETURN @string
END

By: Parth Malhan

Parth Malhan — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:55:32 +0000

HI,

Is there something in SQL Server to make Ltrim as
default Constraint or policy in Database
For All Tables

eg.

SELECT ‘ a ‘ A INTO TestTable

And on select Statement, This Table return only ‘a’ without Leading\Trailing Spaces.

By: Harish Panguluri

Harish Panguluri — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:47:26 +0000

Hi, Can we use this one to the entire column of the table?
something like ”Select Trim([Column Name]);”

Thanks

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:30:33 +0000

Yes that is how it works.

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:28:37 +0000

well i tried to type 2 spaces after the word ‘sample’ but it looks like it got trimmed to just 1.

So… when you save
‘Samples’ to a char(8) field it becomes ‘Samples ‘

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:22:44 +0000

it probably ‘doesnt work’ in your case because CHAR is a fixed length field, so if you trim:
‘Sample ‘

it becomes:
‘Sample’

but when you save it to a char(8) field, it becomes:
‘Sample ‘

because it is padded with spaces again.

By: kashif iqbal

kashif iqbal — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:32:48 +0000

I am suffering from a problem. there is one database field that is entered by users. User may some time entered lot of spaces between characters. This problems in crystal report. few line print on one page and other lines print on 2nd and 3rd page. I checked but this issue not belong to crystal report formatting. I search a lot for crystal report formulas to get solution but i can’t.
I want to remove empty lines between this string. how can i do it?

Thanks

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…..