Replace [TextField] with your text/varchar column/variable
REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE([TextField], CHAR(9), ''), CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), '')
Useful when you want to compare strings and want to diregard tabs and new lines.
A Normalization Primer
For most DBAs, normalization is an understood concept, a bread and butter bit of knowledge. However, it is not at all unusual to review a database design by a development group for an OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) environment and find that the schema chosen is anything but properly normalized. This article by Brian Kelley will give you the core knowledge to data model.
2003-01-13
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