Thanks for your reply, Eric.

The schema is already set as VARCHAR(32).  I modified
the mysql schema that comes with the tdk to work with
MSSQL, which basically meant changing TIMESTAMP's to
DATETIMES and using a more complex "IF EXISTS"
statement.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Chris



--- Eric Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Change your database schema (assuming you can) to
> use varchar..  With SQl
> Server 2k, there are very few reasons to use char
> versus varchar..  Save's
> space too!
> 
> Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Chew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Trailing Spaces in SQL Server Fields
> 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I am new to turbine and working on my first app.  I
> am
> using sql server 2000 (unfortunately), and the sun
> jdbc-odbc bridge driver.
> 
> Whenever a new record is saved (INSERT or UPDATE),
> trailing spaces get added to the field value to fill
> up the maximum allowed.  For example, everytime a
> user
> logs in, their username gets extended to the
> username
> + (32 - str.length(username)) spaces.  That is, the
> user:
> 
> 'turbine' becomes
> 'turbine                         '
> 
> And they can't log in again until I change it in the
> database.
> 
> Can anyone offer any ideas of where and why this
> might
> be happening?  Is likely it the driver, the peer
> service or the database?
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Chris
> 
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