Remove all spaces from a string in SQL Server

Question

What is the best way to remove all spaces from a string in SQL Server 2008?

LTRIM(RTRIM(\' a b \')) would remove all spaces at the right and left of th

Answer 1

I had this issue today and replace / trim did the trick..see below.

update table_foo 
set column_bar  = REPLACE(LTRIM(RTRIM(column_bar)), '  ', '')

before and after :

old-bad:  column_bar    |   New-fixed:   column_bar
       '  xyz  '        |                'xyz'   
       '  xyz  '        |                'xyz' 
       '  xyz  '        |                'xyz' 
       '  xyz  '        |                'xyz' 
       '  xyz  '        |                'xyz' 
       '  xyz  '        |                'xyz'