mahavidhya24 (8/26/2013)
L TRIM removes all the white space from the starting of the pattern and R TRIM removes all the white space at the end of the pattern.:-)
Sorry, but that's factually incorrect for SQL Server. For SQL, LTRIM and RTRIM affect only spaces, not all whitespace characters.
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