I just checked my databases and servers, and ANSI padding is False on all of them, but per BOL:
Important:
In a future version of SQL Server ANSI_PADDING will always be ON and any applications that explicitly set the option to OFF will produce an error. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.
I've never messed with the setting, I assumed it was True because of what it says in BOL, but it looks like BOL might be wrong about the default.
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