A Monumental Migration to SQL Server 2016 - Part 2
In my previous post, I outlined the preparations we undertook to migrate a large SQL Server 2008R2 instance to SQL Server 2016. This post details migration day.
Final Prep We...
2019-01-09
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Blog Posts
A shell for working with Kubernetes
I’m always a fan of tools that can make my life easier.
One tool that I’ve recently come across is...
2019-01-09
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Back to the future
It’s January 2019 as I write this. I realized that I started on my journey with SQL Server in 1998,...
2019-01-09
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BIOS and OS Power Settings to enhance SQL Server Performance
Performance is always a most prioritized task for any DBA and every DBA always prefer to go for a proactive...
2019-01-09
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Please Vote for my article "SQL Triggers - An Introduction" on CodeProject.
Please Vote for my article "SQL Triggers - An Introduction" on CodeProject.
One of my Code Project article on SQL Trigger has...
2019-01-09
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Please Vote for my article "SQL Triggers - An Introduction" on CodeProject.
Please Vote for my article "SQL Triggers - An Introduction" on CodeProject.One of my Code Project article on SQL Trigger has been selected as entry in this contest. I...
2019-01-09
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Pro SQL Server on Linux–Install
As part of my learning goals for 2018, I wanted to work through various books. This is part of my...
2019-01-09
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Query memory grants part 2: Varchars and sorting
Why the heck did we make all our columns varchar? That’s a hypothetical question, please.
But now we have to pay...
2019-01-09
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Source Control using Azure Data Studio and GitHub
You can maintain and deploy code easily
Source control is a vital part of IT work, since it is used to track changes over software and documents, with two main...
2019-01-09
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Source Control using Azure Data Studio and GitHub
You can maintain and deploy code easilySource control is a vital part of IT work, since it is used to...
2019-01-09
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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....
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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