Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation
At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest...
2018-12-20
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Blog Posts
Restarting a Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-12-20
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SHUTDOWN SQL Server
Recently a friend by the name of Chris Bell (blog | twitter) wrote about an easy way to disrupt SQL Server....
2018-12-20 (first published: 2018-12-03)
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Actual Emails: What is a "soft delete"?
What's a "soft delete", and why should DBAs be aware of such behavior in tables?
So, a DELETE statement is a “hard” delete. The data is gone.
However, it is a...
2018-12-19
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Infrastructure matters, even in the Cloud
I am still amused by terminology in the Information Technology field. Words like “Kubernetes,” “containers,” and the BASIC keywords PEEK...
2018-12-19
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MongoDB – Basic Commands
We discussed about MongoDb installation and startup. I highly recommend to go though the training session which will provide a detail...
2018-12-19
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SQL Server Availability Group FailoverDetection Utility PowerShell Function Improvements – Named Instances, Archiving Data, Speed
In my last post I wrote about a new function for gathering the data and running the FailoverDetection utility by...
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-12-01)
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SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup
Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time. In this post, I’ll show you how to set...
2018-12-19
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T-SQL Tuesday Participation Over the Years
I have personally participated in quite a large number of these TSQL Tuesday events - despite not being every single one. This is a roundup of my personal participation...
2018-12-19
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T-SQL Tuesday Participation Over the Years
Loads of TSQL Tuesdays
Years ago the TSQL Tuesday party was started by Adam Machanic (b|t). The premise of the monthly event...
2018-12-19
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
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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