How to output query results as fixed length fields

• Jim Woods

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  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?

• Jayanth_Kurup

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  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]

• Jim Woods

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  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,

• Ron McCullough

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  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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• Jeff Moden

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  June 26, 2011 at 5:42 pm

  #1344269

  Jim Woods (6/26/2011)

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  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+....

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