Question : Don't trim trailing space in varchar fields?

Is it possible to have a varchar field in a SQL Server 2000 database that doesn't trim trailing space inserted into the field?  I really need spaces at the end to stay, but I'm unsure if this is even possible.

I can't really use a char field either, since that would pad the entire end with spaces so I'd have no way to know what spaces were originally inserted, and what spaces SQL Server inserted.

Answer : Don't trim trailing space in varchar fields?

you might try char(160), which looks like a space, but won't trim.