ANSI Padding

How can one find out the ANSI Padding setting (i.e. ON or
OFF) of an existing table without drawing a conclusion
from playing with the data in the subject table?sp_help <table>
look at the column "trimtrailingblanks"
if trimtrailingblanks = yes --ansi padding off
if truntraukubgblanks = no --ansi padding on
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- Vishal|||oops, spelling mistake ,
if trimtrailingblanks = yes --ansi padding off
if trimtrailingblanks = no --ansi padding on
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- Vishal|||In addition to what Vishal said, you can use the
UsesAnsiTrim COLUMNPROPERTY. Notice that it is not a table
property, but a column property. Try:
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
create table Test (col1 varchar(10))
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
alter table Test add col2 varchar(10)
select COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('Test'), 'col1',
N'UsesAnsiTrim')
select COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('Test'), 'col2',
N'UsesAnsiTrim')
drop table Test
HTH
Vern
>--Original Message--
>How can one find out the ANSI Padding setting (i.e. ON or
>OFF) of an existing table without drawing a conclusion
>from playing with the data in the subject table?
>.
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