Question

I need to remove the any double space (two spaces) that comes anywhere in the text in one my database tables..

I tried:

update items set description= replace(description, '  ', ' ')

but this removes if it is only the spaces.. but the “description” cells has many words like: “any text here  more”, so I need to remove the two spaces before the word “more” at the example before, and leave everything else as is.. just replace the double space with one space anywhere.

Answer 1

you can use trim command, please refer this

http://consultingblogs.emc.com/jamespipe/archive/2007/08/14/SQL_3A00_-A-49-character-long-_2700_empty_2700_-field_3F00_.aspx

or try this

update items set description= replace(description,space(2),space(1))