How to install the tSQLt unit test framework to start unit testing your database code
This blog post describes how easy it is to install the tSQLt framework.
Don’t know much about tSQLt? If you are...
2018-12-29
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Blog Posts
How to use tSQLt unit test framework with a SQL Server database in a docker container
This blog post describes how to add the tSQLt unit testing framework to a database running in a docker container....
2018-12-29
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SQL Servers Black Box Recorder – system_health
In this article, the focus will be directed to the next leg of the black box recorder - or the system_health Extended Event Session.
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2018-12-29
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SQL Servers Black Box Recorder – system_health
Yesterday i shared the first article in a three part series about the SQL Black Box Recorder, that you can...
2018-12-29
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Data Warehousing Tip #2 – What your data warehouse should be
I’ve seen data warehouses that nobody trusts, or are just too complex for end users to report on. Users will...
2018-12-28
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Fun-time Friday - Data outages, Security Breaches and Brexit
It’s been an interesting week here at gethynellis.com. We have been busy with a SQL Server version upgrade for a...
2018-12-28 (first published: 2018-12-07)
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How to Cluster MaxDB on Windows in the Cloud #Azure #AWS #GCP #SAP
Recently I have had a number of customers looking for a high availability solution for MaxDB on Windows in the...
2018-12-28
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Journaling
Most of the work I’ve done for the past couple years doesn’t require taking much in the way of notes....
2018-12-28 (first published: 2018-12-04)
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Shrinking Tempdb in SQL Server won’t work?
Problem statement When I was working DML operation on the database, It is noted that the tempdb has grown significantly...
2018-12-28
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Shrinking Tempdb in SQL Server won’t work?
Problem statement When I was working DML operation on the database, It is noted that the tempdb has grown significantly larger and I didn’t have much space on the...
2018-12-28
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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