SQL In The City: LA
Just a reminder that there are a few seats left for SQL In The City: LA on the 29th of...
2011-09-30
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday 89 in HotLanta!
So I am really close to Atlanta geographically, but I?m never there. I?m going to change that after this SQL...
2011-09-30
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SQL Saturday 97 Bound
Truck is loaded up and heading to the airport to make an appearance at SQL Saturday #97 in Austin TX...
2011-09-30
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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives: Volume II
Two years ago when SQL Server MVP Deep Dives: Volume 1 was released, I had the opportunity to contribute two...
2011-09-30
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SSIS Variable and Expressions Followup
Over the last week I have done several sessions either for the Pragmatic Works Free Training online or at SQL...
2011-09-30
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The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts...
2011-09-30
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What do you want to see from your PASS board? Me?
Many of you know recently the PASS board announced that elections will be coming up for three seats on the...
2011-09-30
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Chalkboard at the Office
This is something I saw recently, a large chalkboard – like the kind they used to have in schools – on a...
2011-09-29
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Getting Previous Row in SSIS Data Flow
There is no native function built in to SSIS to get the previous row in the data flow. But with...
2011-09-29
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PASS Summit 2011: My Itinerary
Here goes with what I hope to achieve the following week in Seattle, WA Oct 9-15 for my 4th summit.
I...
2011-09-29
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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