Posted by lossed on 10/02/78 11:51

Tks Erland,

Do you know what would be the query syntax that will concatenate the
first_name field with the required number of no breaking spaces?


Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> lossed (hundyhunter@gmail.com) writes:
> > Please excuse me if this has been asked before or sounds a bit dim.
> > This is a question asked on another forum but the solutions being
> > offered are focussing on programming rather than letting the DB server
> > do the work, which I'm not sure is the most efficient solution.
> > However, my confession is I dont use SQL server so can't help them
> > directly with the syntax. Hopefully you can help me help them and learn
> > a little about SQL Server in the process.
> >
> > Trying to right pad a first name field so the padded string is a total
> > of 30 chars. It will be output concatenated with the last name field,
> > and each field separated with a "|". So that when output it reads
> > something like:
> >
> > fname | mylastname
> >...
> > Issue: It appears this is padding correctly but the spaces are not
> > rendering in the browser. (I have no way to check this as I don't use
> > sqlserver. However, I can understand that multiple spaces are not going
> > to render in the client browser, if indeed the query is padding with
> > spaces.
>
> This sounds like an HTML design issue to me. Use a table with an invisible
> border, rather than putting   and all that stuff in SQL Server.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
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