Comments on: Removing Null Characters (0x00) From Values in SQL Server

By: juan pablo Gomez Serna

juan pablo Gomez Serna — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:04:19 +0000

Great still works on 2022

By: Nadeem Ilyas

Nadeem Ilyas — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:33:19 +0000

Thanks mate, works fine for me 🙂

REPLACE(CAST(COLUMN_NAME as varchar(max)) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS, CHAR(0), ”)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:01:23 +0000

I goggled and successful used this way of eliminating the null character: select Replaced = replace('BAD_STRING_OR_COLUMN_NAME' COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN, nchar(0x00) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN , '') To see the difference run this: select Replaced = 'BAD_STRING_OR_COLUMN_NAME' COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN + nchar(0x00) + '|||' select Replaced = replace('BAD_STRING_OR_COLUMN_NAME' COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN + nchar(0x00) + '|||', nchar(0x00) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN , '')

By: IG

IG — Thu, 01 May 2014 03:00:17 +0000

10 out 10. Exactly what I was looking for. Worked perfectly and saved my bacon. Thanks! : )

By: Varun

Varun — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:08:34 +0000

Perfect answer. After looking around and googling for hours, I got it here. Many thanks.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:39:37 +0000

This solution is working fine …..with the columns those having null value

Thanks for the post……

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:50:11 +0000

This works great, unless you need to retain the unicode characters. The conversion to VARCHAR rips that away. (or more accurately, converts it to the ascii character that occupies the same byte position in the ascii character table)

Not really a solution for dealing with data in an international user environment.