(for your reading pleasure, written by Jules. –ed) We have all had that sinking feeling of defeat: you’ve just finished explaining a very important and highly technical thing to...
2023-07-05 (first published: 2023-06-20)
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“Work Smarter, not Harder” We’ve all heard it before, pretty much any job, anywhere. In our DBA slice of the IT world, this is very relevant to how we...
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-04-28)
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If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Query multiple SQL Server instances at one time! Thanks for watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
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2022-11-09 (first published: 2022-10-28)
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I blogged about this in August, but wanted to do this video as well: Thanks for reading and/or watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
The post Organize Your Tabs in SQL Server...
2022-11-02
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As a CIO or CTO, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that your organization’s data is managed effectively and efficiently. To do this, you need to have...
2022-09-14
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How long has this worked, and why didn’t anyone tell me? A typical restore statement from a FULL backup and a LOG backup: USE [master] RESTORE DATABASE [XE_demo] FROM...
2022-05-11
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(This post written by Jon Biggs (t), one of our Senior DBAs) We are currently performing migrations with upgrade of multiple-instance SQL Servers to new servers. The migrations are...
2022-03-22
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This is not another IRL post, but rather is more of “Help, my SQL Express database is full!” post. I was contacted by a lawyer that was using a...
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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I was chatting with Jeff (b|t) on my team yesterday and the context escapes me but I had this thought: “Can you Group By the beginning characters, or a...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-22)
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By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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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