SQL Server Looking into Differential Backups
I seem to be writing solely about Azure so to shake things up a bit I am going back to...
2019-02-05
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Blog Posts
Two T-SQL features that I appreciate
We occasionally get cool improvements in T-SQL in newer versions of SQL Server. Here’s a short post on some of...
2019-02-05
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A brief introduction for bcp
I end up using the bcp utility to move tables between environments, and I’ve found that a lot of the...
2019-02-04 (first published: 2019-01-16)
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Classify your Azure SQL Database
Here I am talking about SQL Data Discovery & Classification feature that is built into Azure SQL Database. With this feature you...
2019-02-04
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Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer, I love Entity Framework. That’s right. Entity Framework is...
2019-02-04
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Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer,...
2019-02-04
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 5: Finding Previous Non Null Value
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-04
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Finding Cluster Log Errors
Sometimes you know that a problem occurred, but the tools are not giving you the right information. If you ever...
2019-02-04 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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Interview Trick Questions
Anybody that has interviewed for a job has most likely run into the trick question. Some interviewers like to throw out multiple trick questions all in an effort to...
2019-02-04
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Learning for Feb
By the time you read this, I’ll have decided, but I just finished the first book and need to pick...
2019-02-04
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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