T-SQL Tuesday #17 – APPLY Knowledge
It’s that time of the month again… again. Time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s event is being hosted by Matt...
2011-04-12
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StrateSQL
April PASSMN Meeting (April 19)
Every career, whether on purpose or accident, is a journey from one job or project to another. To achieve great...
2011-04-11
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I Got Registered!
I’m going to SQL Rally! Are you going to SQL Rally? Have you heard of SQL Rally?
What’s SQL Rally?
I’m glad...
2011-04-07
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#Meme Monday
Use extended events; they work – and make you appear magical.
– “Write a SQL blog post in 11 words or less”...
2011-04-04
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#SQLSat67… it’s mystery is only exceeded by it’s power.
We’ve seen a few summaries come through by now, so I’m going to throw mine into the mix. To recap...
2011-03-29
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MCM Exam – Take 2
Yesterday, I went in for my re-take of the MCM written exam. If you recall, I failed the exam last...
2011-03-29
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Index Black Ops Series
Previously, in a TSQL2sDay index summary post, I started a series on the DMV sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats. The series investigates how the...
2011-03-26
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TechFuse Follow-Up
Last week I spoke at the TechFuse event in Minnesota – out at Mystic Lake Casino. As I mentioned in the...
2011-03-24
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What Are Your Indexing Strategies?
A couple weeks ago, I got some pretty great new. The book proposal that I had submitted to Apress was...
2011-03-22
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Twin City Code Camp 10 Is Coming
Twin Cities Code Camp will be hitting the University of Minnesota Campus again next month. This is a biannual event...
2011-03-18
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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
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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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