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sathish
sathish

Reputation: 983

TRIM is not a recognized built-in function name

For the following code:

DECLARE @ss varchar(60)
  SET @ss = 'admin'

  select TRIM(@ss)

I've got an error:

'TRIM' is not a recognized built-in function name

Upvotes: 95

Views: 140265

Answers (3)

Nick.Mc
Nick.Mc

Reputation: 19204

Perhaps it's set to an earlier compatibility level.

Use this to find out: 

SELECT compatibility_level FROM sys.databases

SQL Server 2017 is 140

If it's any lower then it won't recognize TRIM

To change the compatibility to SQL Server 2017

ALTER DATABASE database_name   
SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140

For a list of supported compatibility levels for each SQL Server version check out ALTER DATABASE (Transact-SQL) Compatibility Level.

Based on comments below, your installed version of SQL Server is SQL 2016. You need to install SQL Sever 2017 to get TRIM

Upvotes: 27

PSK
PSK

Reputation: 17943

TRIM is introduced in SQL Server (starting with 2017).

In older version of SQL Server to perform trim you have to use LTRIM and RTRIM like following.

DECLARE @ss varchar(60)
  SET @ss = ' admin '

  select RTRIM(LTRIM(@ss))

If you don't like using LTRIM, RTRIM everywhere, you can create your own custom function like following.

   CREATE FUNCTION dbo.TRIM(@string NVARCHAR(max))
    RETURNS NVARCHAR(max)
     BEGIN
      RETURN LTRIM(RTRIM(@string))
     END
    GO

Upvotes: 127

SQL_M
SQL_M

Reputation: 2475

You can use this code for older versions:

SELECT RTRIM (LTRIM (' JKL ')) AS Trimmed

Which results in 'JKL'

Upvotes: 6

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