Security 101 - Seven Ways You Give Thieves Dibs On Your Database

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How to strip spaces.

UPDATE [TABLE]

SET [COLUMN] = LTRIM(RTRIM([COLUMN]))

WHERE LEN([COLUMN]) <> DATALENGTH([COLUMN])

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