Wednesday, November 6, 2013

How to Remove Extra Space from a String in SQL Server

DECLARE @NAME AS VARCHAR(100)
SET @NAME = 'Arka      G      Gupta'

SELECT @NAME AS [String with extra spaces],
REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@NAME,CHAR(32),'()'),')(',''),'()',CHAR(32))
AS [String without extra spaces]

OUTPUT--

String with extra spaces
String without extra spaces
Arka      G      Gupta
Arka G Gupta

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