T-SQL Documentation Generator
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #110 prompt by Garry Bargsley. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2019-01-08
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #110 – Automate All the Things
Automate All the Things
I had a strange thing happen to me this week. My IFTTT applet that sends me an...
2019-01-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #110 – Automate All the Things
From a DBA's perspective, automation is something that is absolutely necessary. This post shows just a few areas where I use automation in my life.
The post T-SQL Tuesday #110...
2019-01-08
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What product to use to transform my data?
If you are building a big data solution in the cloud, you will likely be landing most of the source data into a data lake. And much of this...
2019-01-08
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What product to use to transform my data?
If you are building a big data solution in the cloud, you will likely be landing most of the source...
2019-01-08
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Workshop – Kubernetes Zero to Hero – Installation, Configuration, and Application Deployment
Pre-conference Workshop at SQLSaturday Chicago – 825
I’m proud to announce that I will be be presenting an all day pre-conference workshop at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 23rd 2018! This...
2019-01-08
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Workshop – Kubernetes Zero to Hero – Installation, Configuration, and Application Deployment
Pre-conference Workshop at SQLSaturday Chicago – 825
I’m proud to announce that I will be be presenting an all day pre-conference workshop...
2019-01-08
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A Monumental Migration to SQL Server 2016 - Part 1
A bit over a year ago, I blogged about my experience migrating a test SQL Server instance from a VM to a physical machine with a little help from...
2019-01-07
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ArithAbort and SQL Agent Failures
ARITHABORT
I was coding along one day, working on rolling out some monitoring for a client—monitoring that I had used for previous...
2019-01-07
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ArithAbort and SQL Agent Failures
ARITHABORT can be a short termed head scratcher. Pay close attention to what has changed in the environment. Test alternatives. And check those connection strings.
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2019-01-07
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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