SSRS export to Excel converts DateTime Column to Text Column
Recently we observed a weird issue with SSRS export to Excel. One of the datetime column in the report was...
2013-07-02
1,947 reads
Mirrored Database as SSRS Data Source
Recently one of our report started to fail with error like Unable to Connect to Database error. Then only we...
2012-11-13
1,115 reads
SSRS: FORMAT option for milliseconds
Some of our reports have hyperlink enabled on few metrics which points to an internal website. Recently there was a...
2012-05-21
2,039 reads
SQL SERVER Replication – Troubleshooting Steps for Beginners
Few days back there was a replication issue in one of the QA servers. Since the DBA was out of...
2012-04-03 (first published: 2012-03-26)
5,439 reads
Converting SQL SERVER DateTime? Test it thoroughly….
Today one of my user complained that a report was missing one particular ticket from the output. The report in...
2012-03-08 (first published: 2012-02-28)
4,295 reads
Passing BIGINT data to SSRS Sub Report
Few days back one of my team mate complained to me that one particular sub report is failing randomly with
Error:...
2012-02-27
1,465 reads
SSRS 2008 Error – The report definition is not valid
Recently I downloaded a file from one of our production server, did some changes and reviewed it in BIDS and...
2012-02-27
4,722 reads
Dundas Dashboard – My observations
Dundas Data Visualization Inc, is well-known to SSRS developers. Microsoft had earlier acquired their SSRS controls (Charts, Gauges & Map) and integrated...
2012-02-04
1,569 reads
SQL SERVER connectivity error: SQL Server does not exist or access denied
Recently I was troubleshooting a connectivity issue in a development environment from an application. The application was using the connection...
2012-01-16
50,199 reads
Review of my blog posts in 2011
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey...
2012-01-02
746 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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