SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 - OUT of SUPPORT July 2019
Both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 go out of extended support with Microsoft in July 2019. That’s fast approaching and as we enter the new year...
2019-01-02
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 - OUT of SUPPORT July 2019
Both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 go out of extended support with Microsoft in July 2019. That’s...
2019-01-02
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Static Data Masking (SSMS 18.0 Preview)
Ever need to have a test database on hand that you can allow others to query “real like” data without...
2019-01-02 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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Versions and Patches in SQL Monitor
SQL Monitor has grown from a basic alerting system to an amazing product over the years. From it’s early days...
2019-01-02
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Visualizing Hash Match Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 - nested loops joins, and part 2 - merge joins).
Watch...
2019-01-02
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Visualizing Hash Match Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 - nested loops joins, and part 2 - merge joins).
Watch...
2019-01-02
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2018 Community Influencer of the Year
A few days ago I was surprised to learn from Aaron Bertrand of SentryOne that he was selecting me as Community Influencer of the Year for 2018.
Aaron states that...
2019-01-01
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2018 Community Influencer of the Year
A few days ago I was surprised to learn from Aaron Bertrand of SentryOne that he was selecting me as...
2019-01-01
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2018 Community Influencer of the Year
A few days ago I was surprised to learn from Aaron Bertrand of SentryOne that he was selecting me as Community Influencer of the Year for 2018.
Aaron states that...
2019-01-01
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An error occurred while writing an audit trace. SQL Server is shutting down
There was this incident at one of the clients in recent past. It was a nice morning. I was enjoying the tea of the day. I just started my...
2019-01-01
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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