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How to output query results as fixed length fields

  • June 26, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    #252571

    I have a query that needs to output fixed length fields.

    Query has:

    convert(char(20), field name) as field heading but output is not 20 character field.

    Any ideas?

  • June 26, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    #1344244

    Do you have ANSI padding on ?

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187403.aspx

    Jayanth Kurup[/url]

  • June 26, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    #1344245

    That worked - 2 more questions

    How can I change NULL results to be blank instead of NULL?

    How can I save the results without , between fields?

    Thanks,

  • June 26, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    #1344258

    Oops wrong forum ]

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • June 26, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    #1344269

    Jim Woods (6/26/2011)

    How can I change NULL results to be blank instead of NULL?

    ISNULL(somecolumn,'')

    How can I save the results without , between fields?

    Concatenate the columns into one big column.

    ColumnA+ColumnB+ColumnC+....

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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    How to post code problems
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