Validating text data. A few techniques.
/*datafile used in the SQL */
DECLARE @String VARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT @String = 'When you are starting out to validate text input, perhaps to clean...
2008-10-09
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Blog Posts
Red Gate SQL Response Review is up
Full Disclosure: I did receive a trial version of the software and payment for the review. I am also a...
2008-10-08
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Take the Plunge - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-08
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Tethering vs Air Card & Other Miscellaneous Phone Thoughts
I've been using a Blackberry Curve for a while and I'm been entirely happy with it. Great phone, great battery...
2008-10-08
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Always more to do
My current "to do" list, which is only partially written down and organized. Putting it all one one list is...
2008-10-07
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Can't Attend SQL Server Training in Person, Consider Virtual Training
I am one of the biggest advocates there is of self-education. Whether you are a novice, intermediate, or expert-level DBA,...
2008-10-07
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Database Administration Librarian
If I cannot find a book or info in a library, I always go to a librarian for advice and...
2008-10-07
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Do You Love PASS?
Recently Tony Davis posted some thoughts (almost a rant) about his opinions of PASS, and there is a great follow...
2008-10-07
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Rendering code nicely in blogs and forums.
I wrote the prettifier specifically to help with posting SQL into blogs and forums. You can find it here http://extras.sqlservercentral.com/prettifier/prettifier.aspx...
2008-10-07
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The Best Database Engine - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-07
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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...
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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