Re-blog – July 22-July 28
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-07-29
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Blog Posts
Roundup for Un-SQL Friday #005: Bad Interviews
It’s time for the Un-SQL Friday #005 roundup!
From managers…
First up, The Lone DBA admits that he wasn’t always (ahem) one of us…he’s got...
2011-07-29
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SQL Azure – simple description, part I.
I was studying SQL Azure parameters some time ago and found out that there are no materials which tell you...
2011-07-29
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SQL Server Hardware Book News and Reviews
Today was an exciting day, since I discovered that fellow SQL Server MVP Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) had posted a very...
2011-07-29
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Thank you PASS Community
This has been a great week for me. I had a lot of new faces come out for the Columbus...
2011-07-29
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Activity Monitor and Profiler
Today I came across a link to a neat little script for SQL 2005 / 2008 to help derive the head blocker in a blocking chain. That script can...
2011-07-28
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Activity Monitor and Profiler
Today I came across a link to a neat little script for SQL 2005 / 2008 to help derive the head...
2011-07-28
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Bad Admins: Non-Production Servers
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-28
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Do You Work for #1?
Someone recently asked me if I would work for a company if I didn’t believe in their products or services...
2011-07-28
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How to move Cluster MSDTC Drive
I recently had the need to move the MSDTC for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It’s a quite simple...
2011-07-28
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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