"Ooks Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've run into a problem with the behavior of concat(). If I have two fields,
> char(10), and I do this:
>
> concat(field1,fields)
>
> With MSSQL I get both fields including trailing spaces. With MYSql, I get
> the two fields with the trailing spaces trimmed. Example:
>
> Field1 = "abc "
> Field2 = "qwerty "
>
> MSSQL -> concat( field1, fields) -> "abc qwerty "
> MYSQL -> concat( field1, fields) -> "abcqwerty"
>
> How do I get Mysql to behave like MSSQL does? I need it to concatenate the
> fields without stripping the trailing spaces.
It's a known behaviour of MySQL. MySQL removes trailing spaces at the end of VARCHAR
and CHAR columns:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Open_bugs.html
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