Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Remove Hidden Characters

Here is great way to remove "hidden" characters from data being imported in SQL Server. These characters are common when importing flat file data.

MetaDeveloper: Remove Carriage Return, Line Feed, Tab in TSQL: "-- remove carriage return, line feed, and tab from a field in tsql
REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(MyField, CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), ''), CHAR(9), '')"

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