Empty string variable matching to LIKE conditions in SQL

Question

I have a SQL Server table containing a nvarchar(max) column. I ran a query to select every row where this column contains the string \'remove\'. Amongst the res

Answer 1

I think, you should trim the column;

select itemid, LTRIM(RTRIM(content))
from objects
where itemid = 100 and content like '%remove%'

Answer 2

My guess is that you have some control character(s) in the string. If the first character is a newline, for example, that may cause the rest not to be displayed.

Try

select item_id, unicode(content) 
from objects
where item_id = 100;

This will show the unicode code point for the first character you can see the second character with:

unicode(substring(item, 2, 1))

and so on.