Ignoring spaces in a comparison

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From: Russell
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:11

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is there a simple way of ignoring spaces in a select, sort of

WHERE IgnoreSpaces("MYFIELD") = 'MYVALUE'

or is there a simple LIKE pattern that will achieve this effect? Not really 
worried about performance on this one.

many thanks

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