Why do I have many spaces after each data in a cell in my datagridview cell rows data from database?

Question

I inserted data into my SQL Server database Leyte :

using (SqlConnection myConnection = new SqlConnection(con))
{
    myConnection.Open();

    SqlDataAdapter adapt = new SqlDataAdapter("select prov_name from tbl_CoopList", con);

    DataTable dt = new DataTable();
    adapt.Fill(dt);

    dgv_CoopList.DataSource = dt;

    myConnection.Close();
}

The problem was at runtime, in datagridview, when I double click the cell it has many spaces like:

 "Leyte (and a lot of spaces)".

I have been trying to solve my problem in how to center my data texts for each cell even though i have this code :

dataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;

I want the result to be the same as what I have inserted in my SQL Server database. How can I possibly erase all the blank spaces so it will be centered automatically.

Answer 1

I'm reasonably certain it's because you've declared your database column type as CHAR (or NCHAR) rather than VARCHAR (or NVARCHAR)

CHAR is a fixed length data type. If you declare a column as being CHAR(10) and then insert the value foobar (6 characters) and then query it back, you will get everything between the arrows:

>foobar    <

This is your six characters of foobar plus 4 spaces to make it up to ten characters for the CHAR(10)

Convert your database columns to VARCHAR (or NVARCHAR)

Answer 2

this.DataGridView.Columns[2].DefaultCellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True;         
this.DataGridView.AutoSizeRowsMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeRowsMode.DisplayedCellsExceptHeaders;         
this.DataGridView.Columns[2].AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.Fill;

Hope this will help you.