GBeezy (5/28/2014)
All,I have a field in AX that is NVARCHAR(30). Sometimes the value has 5 extra characters at the end and sometimes, it does not. I have been attempting to get rid of the trailing spaces and nothing has worked. What I have tried:
1. LTRIM(RTRIM(colA)) AS ColA
2. RTRIM(LTRIM(colA)) AS ColA
3. RTRIM(colA) AS ColA
4. REPLACE(colA), ' ','') AS ColA (my first argument for replace has 5 spaces)
5. REPLACE(colA), ' ','') AS ColA
6. REPLACE(LTRIM(RTRIM(colA))), ' ', '') AS ColA
7. REPLACE(LTRIM(RTRIM(colA))), ' ', '') AS ColA
8. I tried casting it to a VARCHAR and attempting all of the above and that is not working.
I am not sure why this will not work, but if anyone can provide some insight, I would greatly appreciate it.
My guess is they are not spaces some other non-printable character. Find on of the offending rows and try this.
select ASCII(right(ColA, 1))
Where ColA like 'SomeKnownValue%'
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