SQL Query issue with large varchar column

Question

I have a SQL Query (PL/SQL function body returning SQL query) which contains a large varchar column. Even if I substring the column to 30chars when it displays on the page it wraps. I have tried putting nowrap="wrap" for the HTML table cell attributes and it still wraps. I have tried setting the width attributes on the column even though it's not an updateable column. Does anyone have any ideas on how prevent this from wrapping. In some cases 1 line will take up 3 because of this wrapping issue and it's not nice to look at. It seems that the column is somewhere set to a fixed width, which is less than 30 characters, and anything beyond this fixed width wraps.

Answer 1

Hi Netha,
Can you please provide the DDLs of three tables you are using,
Also post us how many rows you are getting output for this query? 
select * from dim.store st where
st.store_code = 'MAUR'
also try to run and update statement on this table as below and execute your query
update dim.store
set store_code
= ltrim(rtrim(store_code))
where
store_code = 'MAUR'
once you run this update, then run your query.  Let us know the result.