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>select * from MyTable where LEN(rtrim( MyField) ) > 0
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>Is the above efficient method or there is a better approach?>
>I don't know if there is a better approach or not, but to make it more robust, you should modify it like so:
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>select * from MyTable where LEN(ltrim(rtrim( MyField)) ) > 0
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I thought about this too. But I thought that the "ltrim()" would be redundant. Can you think of a case where the rtrim() by itself will not work?
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