Re: insert query

[Csongor Fagyal]

Stefan Hinz, iConnect (Berlin) wrote:

>Murthy,
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>>how to insert only blank spaces into a field using insert query. Its
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>getting
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>>trimmed off.
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>If you are using VARCHAR for this, you're right. It's a documented
>behaviour of MySQL ("Values are not padded; instead, trailing spaces are
>removed when values are stored. (This space removal differs from the
>ANSI SQL specification.)"): http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CHAR.html
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BTW, why is this?

- Cs.