SQL Server 2008: How to find trailing spaces
You can find trailing spaces with LIKE:
SELECT col FROM tbl WHERE col LIKE '% '
SQL Server 2005:
select col from tbl where right(col, 1) = ' 'As a demo:
select case when right('said Fred', 1) = ' ' then 1 else 0 end as NoTrail, case when right('said Fred ', 1) = ' ' then 1 else 0 end as WithTrailreturns
NoTrail WithTrail0 1
This is what worked for me:
select * from table_name where column_name not like RTRIM(column_name)This will give you all the records that have trailing spaces.
If you want to get the records that have either leading or trailing spaces then you could use this:
select * from table_name where column_name not like LTRIM(RTRIM(column_name))