Tool Review: Quicken
I've used Quicken for a long time now and it's the center of how I manage finances at home. There...
2008-08-25
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Blog Posts
Assessing DB Changes
One of the things I teach in our admin course is that it's not enough to just be the gatekeeper/central...
2008-08-24
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Deleting Duplicates without a unique key
The following was sent to me by my friend and colleague Dave Miller:
Dave's Email:
Wanted to pass along something I hadn't...
2008-08-21
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Kindle - On the clock
In a week and a half, I start on the first of my four trips this year for work, and...
2008-08-21
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Taking Care of Employees - Storms
As I write this a tropical storm is passing over Orlando and has turned out to be milder than expected...
2008-08-21
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[Off Topic] The Big Apple
I got my first opportunity to visit New York City last week. I was actually sitting in on a training...
2008-08-20
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SQLSaturday #8 in Orlando - Update (Aug 21)
Registration has been open for only a few weeks and we've got 110 registered so far, a nice start! We...
2008-08-20
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Troubleshooting High Connections & What's The Application Name?
I was visiting with a client recently when they asked me to come take a look at an incident in...
2008-08-20
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Notes on My Visit to the St Louis SQL Group
Actually it was subset of the group, but Kathi & Julie from the St Louis SQL Server User Group did a...
2008-08-19
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Speaker workshop
Andy Warren made a trip to St. Louis this past weekend to put on a speaker workshop for our user...
2008-08-19
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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