SQL Saturday 97 starts in 7 hours
I flew into Austin Texas today and got to spend time with a lot of great people. The journey started...
2011-10-01
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Blog Posts
A Good Time to Be a SQL Server Professional
Wow! Can't believe today is the last day of September! Fall, here we come! Although Summer is over, Autumn is...
2011-09-30
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Creating your first Data Mining Structure and Model
Data mining is a great way to help your company make decisions and predict future values. The Data Mining Algorithms...
2011-09-30
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Free SQL Server in the City Event to be Held in LA
Red Gate Software will be providing a free, full-day SQL Server event called SQL in the City in Los Angeles,...
2011-09-30
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How to find a string value in all the string columns of a table/view in SQL Server ?
Introduction
I am sure many times we all might have come across situations where we need to search/find a string value...
2011-09-30
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Join the Wolf Pack at PASS Summit 2011
Quick update for all of you!
Hey there everyone! We are going to have some awesome surprises, new software features...
2011-09-30
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Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances
Microsoft has made available SQL Server appliances and reference architectures that allow customers to deploy data warehouse (DW), business intelligence (BI) and...
2011-09-30
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New website, exciting future for BRSSUG
Just wanted to push out an announcement that the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group has a new website.
www.brssug.org
We've...
2011-09-30
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Presentation Files: 10 Things All BI Administrators Should Know
Presentation Files: 10 Things All BI Administrators Should Know
I sooooo remember this sign!
I was very excited to get to present...
2011-09-30
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Re-blog – September 23 – September 30
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-09-30
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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