Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 3.6: Chauvenet’s Criterion
By Steve Bolton
…………This is the last of six articles I’ve segregated in this middle of my mistutorial series on identifying...
2015-02-28
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Blog Posts
Secure your password with HashBytes TIP #89
Dear Friends,
In my last article (TIP 87) I wrote about PWDENCRYPT. I forgot to write few details but thanks to...
2015-02-28
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2015-02-27
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Friday Followup For February 27, 2015
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2015-02-27
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Impact Series – Part 2
It’s that time again to add another impact player to the roster; this time for the month of February.
This month...
2015-02-27
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Impact Series – Part 2
It’s that time again to add another impact player to the roster; this time for the month of February.
This month...
2015-02-27
952 reads
SQLSaturday Phoenix
This weekend, I’m flying to Phoenix to be a part of SQLSaturday there. I will present two new sessions on...
2015-02-27
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tSQLt – SQLCop – Checking Naming Conventions
I’ve been using tSQLt a bit to do some testing and one of the things I’ve tested is standards for...
2015-02-27 (first published: 2015-02-12)
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Dynamic Data Masking
Dynamic Data Masking
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers or last...
2015-02-26
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Gimme A Break! Taking Mental Health Days - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutes Burnout! You have been stressing over the big project you have...
The post Gimme A Break! Taking...
2015-02-26
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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....
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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