Steve Jobs 1955-2011
It sucks getting older. There are any number of reminders of that fact on a regular basis as I move...
2011-10-06
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Blog Posts
Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy
My favorite and most used feature of the SSMS Tools Pack is the query history. This feature has saved me a lot of time and effort. DBAs where I...
2011-10-06
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Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy
My favorite and most used feature of the SSMS Tools Pack is the query history. This feature has saved me a lot of time and effort. DBAs where I...
2011-10-06
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Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy
My favorite and most used feature of the SSMS Tools Pack is the query history. This feature has saved me...
2011-10-06
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Collect Database File Size with Powershell
I decided to start monitoring the amount of free space in my database files so that I can make sure...
2011-10-05
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Extended Events and Performance Tuning Knowledge
I’m working on updating my book, Query Performance Tuning Distilled, so that it reflects the new things available in SQL...
2011-10-05
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Final Prep for the 2011 Summit
I’m running through my mental (and some written) pre-travel checklist, tickets, clothes, a few odds and ends, trying to be...
2011-10-05
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Going To The PASS Summit? Can I Have Your Soap And Shampoo?
After last year's PASS Summit I put my money where my mouth was and said I will do something this...
2011-10-05
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Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings
If you are the decision maker in your company and you are tasked with purchasing one or more servers to...
2011-10-05
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My Kit For The Summit
As an old timer at the Sumit I have gone through several iterations of what I carry in my bag.
Luggage
I...
2011-10-05
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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