How to do DevOps as a SQL Server DBA
You recognize that you need to provide a pipeline for database deployments, that you need to automate as much support...
2015-02-26
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Blog Posts
My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
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My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
967 reads
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
Nov 12, 2014
Dear Diary,
They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see a lot...
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-16)
8,774 reads
Parsing SQL Saturday Data – Getting Titles from the XML document
I’m continuing on with my project to grab SQL Saturday data and automatically insert it into a SQL Server database....
2015-02-25
1,443 reads
PWDCOMPARE–a hidden function of SQL SERVER TIP #88
I the last tip TIP#88 we saw how to encrypt a password. Now in this tip I would like to...
2015-02-25
951 reads
Show AutoGrowth Events with Powershell to CSV
This week I was reading Pinal Daves post about Autogrowth Events
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/02/03/sql-server-script-whenwho-did-auto-grow-for-the-database/
as it happened I had a requirement to make use...
2015-02-25 (first published: 2015-02-15)
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Using sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions v6.0
It’s been a while since I posted an updated to usp_DBPermissions and usp_SrvPermissions. Sorry. I got lazy with my posting....
2015-02-25
1,297 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP – a potential game changing technology
Every once in a while a technology comes out that has the potential to change things dramatically. In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) is one...
2015-02-24
19 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP – a potential game changing technology
Every once in a while a technology comes out that has the potential to...
2015-02-24
623 reads
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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SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
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