Trimming text strings in SQL Server 2008

Question

I have a table in a SQL Server 2008 database. This table has a nvarchar(256) column called \'Name\'. Unfortunately, the values in this field have extra spaces included. For

Answer 1

I know this is an old question but I just found a solution which creates a user defined function using LTRIM and RTRIM. It does not handle double spaces in the middle of a string.

The solution is however straight forward:

User Defined Trim Function