Creating SQL Objects on the fly with VB and XML
A method for creating databases and other objects on the fly and distribute these objects to multiple servers.
2001-06-08
1,944 reads
Articles
Speed Tips For Select Statements
This article by Neil Boyle examines techniques for speeding up your queries by writing better T-SQL.
2001-06-07
13,643 reads
Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS Review
Steve Jones reviews the premier DTS reference for SQL Server 2000.
2001-06-06
12,628 reads
SQL Server 7.0 and OLE DB Heterogeneous Queries
This article discusses queries that involve more than one database server. For example, you can run a query that returns a joined recordset where some records come from a SQL Server™ database and others come from an AS/400 machine.
2001-06-06
1,416 reads
Speedy Database Recovery with Differential Backups
Differential backups are a new feature in SQL 7 that can speed up your recovery times when restoring from database and transaction log backups.
2001-06-05
7,672 reads
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reliability
Lots of people are designing and building Microsoft Windows-based apps with previously unimagined reliability. Starbucks, GMAC, and FreeMarkets.com all have case studies demonstrating five nines. So, how are these companies able to achieve these levels of reliability?This month I am going to show you how to use standard Microsoft Windows technologies to make your Microsoft SQL Server™ app just like Denny's—“always open” and ready for business.
2001-06-05
1,660 reads
Complex updates using the Case statement
One of the keys to database performance if keeping your transactions as short as possible. In this article we will look at a couple of tricks using the CASE statement to perform multiple updates on a table in a single operation.
2001-06-04
10,738 reads
2001-06-04
2,761 reads
Put Advanced SQL Server Features To Work
SQL is the lingua franca of server-side Web data apps. Some of the advanced features of SQL joins, views, rankings, and computed columns can drastically simplify your code.
2001-06-04
1,107 reads
Missing Temp Tables
In part one of a two part article, Andy Warren challenges the readers of SQLServerCentral.com to solve a problem involving ADO and SQL Server. Are you up to the challenge?
2001-06-01
4,279 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers