Trimming strings I

Messy strings can be a problem because sometimes, it is not easy to analyze them without cleaning them.

When analyzing the airports table, you realize that some values of the airport_name column are messy strings. These strings have leading and trailing spaces.

The TRIM() function can help you to remove these additional spaces for the airports table.

This exercise is part of the course

Cleaning Data in SQL Server Databases

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Exercise instructions

Examine the content of the airports table to see the leading and trailing spaces.
Use the appropriate function to remove the leading and trailing spaces.
Select the source table where the data is.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

SELECT 
	airport_code,
	-- Use the appropriate function to remove the extra spaces
    ___(___) AS airport_name,
	airport_city,
    airport_state
-- Select the source table
FROM ___

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