Removing blank spaces from the rows

Question

I have a column as name which is having a results like.

name
ABC
XYZ
   ader
fer

I want to remove the blank space before ader and it should print in the output like ader.

How to achieve that?

Answer 1

Depending on your database you can use trim() , ltrim() / rtrim() , or replace() :

select replace(name, ' ', '')
select trim(name, ' ')
select ltrim(rtrim(name))

Answer 2

You can use the LTRIM and RTRIM functions to remove trailing and leading spaces.

SELECT
    RTRIM(LTRIM(name)) AS name
FROM yourTable