Re: Extra blank characters querying SQL server from Oracle

Thanks Mark. Gateway is the same ver as Oracle (19) per the manual recommendation. Sql server is Std Edition 2019.

Left trim, right trim and trim functions are not helping in this case. REPLACE, REGEXP_REPLACE also do not work.

Ram.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 1:54 PM Powell, Mark <mark.powell2_at_dxc.com> wrote:

> What version of the Oracle Gateway is in use? Which driver?
> What version is the target SQL Server?
>
> You could as a workaround and if no one else provides a better solution
> use an ltrim (or trim) function on the select.
>
> Mark Powell
> Database Administration
> (313) 592-5148
>
>
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 8, 2023 2:27 PM
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> *Subject:* Extra blank characters querying SQL server from Oracle
>
> Hi,
>
> We have configured Oracle Gateway to query SQL server from our Oracle 19
> database. However the results add a blank character to every character
> returned for columns in sql server that are defined as unicode columns, ie,
> nvarchar columns.
>
> Here is an example of a query result in SQL plus with the source table in
> sql server:
>
> emp_id emp_name city
> ---------- ------------------------- ----------
> 100 M u t h u New York
> 200 G a r y Seattle
> 201 D a v e Oak Brook
>
>
> The table definition on the sql server side is:
>
> CREATE TABLE [dbo].[employee](
> [emp_id] [smallint] NULL,
> [emp_name] [*nvarchar*](50) NULL,
> [city] [*char*](10) NULL
> ) ON [PRIMARY]
>
> Is there a way in Oracle to strip off the blanks automatically, in this
> example for the emp_name column?
>
> Thanks,
> Ram
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