How to ignore leading spaces

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  Is it possible to compare these tables while ignoring leading spaces?
  
  Unfortunately it is not possible to ignore the leading whitespace in a string.
  
  There is an option to ignore trailing white space however this will only ignore spaces at the end of the string.
  If you wish you can request the feature to ignore leading whitespace in our uservoice forum.
  http://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/147 ... ta-compare
  These forums are actively monitored by our development team and allow our users to request features and vote on them.
  If a feature receives a significant amount of votes or is deemed to have merit development may include the feature in a future release.
  
  If not I was planning to copy tables to same source and manually trim spaces before comparing. Is there better way?
  Alternatively you could create a view and use the view in the comparison. Provided you enable the option to "Include views". Then map the view to the table in object mapping.
  http://documentation.red-gate.com/displ ... ct+options
  
  Manfred

  Manfred.Castro May 01, 2014 12:38

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  Are you able to create a view? If you do this and LTRIM the column in question, you can map the view against the table in the second database in order to run your comparison. Make sure "include views" is enabled in SQL Data Compare mapping behavior options.

  David Atkinson May 01, 2014 17:51

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  Thanks I was able to compare by creating view that included LTRIM()

  vlady May 13, 2014 07:52

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