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I'm new to SQL server. My question here is how can I format the data that is retrieved as a result of SELECT.

Similar defining the column format in SQL Plus. For some reason SQL Server puts in extra spaces between the data fields in the .dat file.

[265 byte] By [Mrishi] at [2007-12-19]
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# 1

If you have additional trainling spaces, it seems that you specified a fixed character length instead of a variable. THe data won′t be chopped until you will specify it either in the table structure or within the Select statement while pumpoing the data out of the database (CONVERT).

HTH, jens Suessmeyer.

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JensSuessmeyer at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,Transact-SQL...
# 2
This is not with the data. Say if I have 2 fields Field 1 and Field 2. Field 1 is 12 char and field 2 is 2 char. Instead of putting Field 1 as 12 char it puts 15 char for Field 1 and for Field 2 it puts 4 char. I want to remove those extra spaces. I would appreciate any help.
Mrishi at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,Transact-SQL...
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