No TRIM Function In 2005 - Are You Serious!?
I cannot believe that there is yet another version of SQL Server without a TRIM function. So for SQL 2005 (like I've done in 7.0 and 2000) my T-SQL will look like dog poo because I will have to write LTRIM(RTRIM(MyValue)) anytime I want to remove whitespace from both ends of character values instead of just writing TRIM(MyValue).
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