Why I Love Extended Events, Reason 394: Customize Live Data
There are so many reasons to love Extended Events that it can really be overwhelming, but, one more reason that...
2018-08-27
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Blog Posts
Azure Every Day, Azure Data Week, and More Azure
As you likely know, I am a Principal Consultant at Pragmatic Works. This year we have been doing some great...
2018-08-25
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Bringing DevOps to #SQLSat Oslo
As my kids get older and I spend less time with them, I look forward to visiting new countries. While...
2018-08-24
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Experimenting SysTools SQL Database Repair Tool by SQL MVP Shashank
Author Bio: Shashank is a TechNet Wiki Ninja who loves to work on SQL Server. He lives in Mumbai and...
2018-08-24
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Identifying records with special characters (Unicode)
Occasionally Data analyst may fall in a situation, where they need to identify records holding special characters or only the...
2018-08-24 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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Leveraging on SQL Server metadata
I’m working on a project where I need to convert Firebird SQL code into T-SQL code.
No schema, just the modules....
2018-08-24
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Warning: Expect Delays
Imagine you are driving somewhere – to work, to the mall, wherever – and you encounter a massive traffic jam. Wall-to-wall, bumper-to-bumper,...
2018-08-24 (first published: 2018-08-12)
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Azure Runbook Configuration
Hello everybody! Greetings from the very warm state of Texas! One of the most popular questions I get when talking...
2018-08-23 (first published: 2018-08-02)
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Exporting Extended Events Session Data to a Table
If you’re a long time Profiler user like me then you probably often take the option of saving (or loading)...
2018-08-23 (first published: 2018-08-08)
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Guatemala SQL Server local group
Good news for all the Guatemalan data professionals, starting from August 2018 you have an official PASS SQL Server local...
2018-08-23
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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