How to remove trailing spaces from SQL Server logical filename?

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Published on 2009-11-25T10:15:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 11:08 UTC
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I'm dealing with a server running SQL Server 2000 SP1, and the logical filenames for one of the databases appear to contain trailing spaces. That is, this query:

select replace(name, ' ', 'X') from sysfiles

Returns the expected names plus a long string of Xs.

How can I deal with this? I've tried running ALTER DATABASE... MODIFY FILE using the name (with and without spaces) and get an error message telling me the file does not exist.

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