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Basic SELECT statement: Get first name of all employees table after removing white spaces from both side

MySQL Basic Select Statement: Exercise-15 with Solution

Write a query to get first name of all employees table after removing white spaces from both side.

Sample table: employees


Code:

-- Removing leading and trailing whitespace characters from the first_name column
SELECT TRIM(first_name) 
-- Selecting data from the employees table
FROM employees;

Explanation:

  • This SQL query removes leading and trailing whitespace characters from the values in the first_name column.
  • The TRIM() function is used to perform this operation. It removes leading and trailing spaces, tabs, and newline characters from a string.

Pictorial Presentation of the above query


Result :


MySQL Code Editor:

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Previous: Write a query to get the name (for example Ellen Abel, Sundar Ande etc.) of all the employees from employees table.
Next: Write a query to get the length of the employee names (first_name, last_name) from employees table.

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