RE: whitespaces

From: Steven Monaghan <MonaghaS_at_mscdirect.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:21:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0040FC19.20020214073839@fatcity.com>

update mytable
set myfield = rtrim(myfield)
;

That's the simple answer. If most of your fields do not have trailing spaces, then:
update mytable
set myfield = rtrim(myfield)
where myfield like '% '
;

If your table is large, you'll need to watch out for rollback issues, etc. I'm sure there are mails in the archive that address ways to do massive updates in chunks.

HTH,
Steve

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Steven Monaghan
Oracle DBA / Cold Fusion Developer
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc.
http://www.mscdirect.com

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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi,

What query can i run to to eliminate trailing whitespaces. e.g. i have 'abc ' and want to update the table so any such data is set without the whitespace, in this case 'abc'

the fiels is varchar2
8.1.7.

cheers

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