Trim all database fields

Question

Do you know if there\'s a quick way in sql server (via transact-sql) that I could trim all the database string fields.

Answer 1

Your question is a bit vague but is this what you are after?

UPDATE mytable SET mycolumn= LTRIM(RTRIM(mycolumn))

That will remove both leading and trailing spaces from all values in the 'mycolumn' column in the 'mytable' table.