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Old January 24th, 2005, 09:56 AM
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Extraneous spaces in job text output
Hi

Rather than providing several web-based reports for the company directors, I've opted to produce these with the SQL Server Agent by running the queries as overnight jobs and sending the output to .txt files in a secure folder

Everything is absolutely fine apart from the fact that the reports always have masses of white space between columns:
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Is anybody aware of what causes there to be so much space between columns and if it's possible to reformat the report or the query to stop it?

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If I've posted some code above, you might think it looks a bit simplistic. It might be. I'd rather people tried the next step themselves rather than getting a full solution on a plate. That way they learn more!
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Incidentally, if I run the query to text output in the Query Analyser I get the same problem...
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Finally, in the attached example, the two fields which generate the most whitespace (username + password) are both NVarChar(25)
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