TDE and DDM
Someone asked a question about TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) and DDM (Dynamic Data Masking), which are two different technologies that...
2018-12-13 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Blog Posts
The Default Frame for Window Functions
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-12-13
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The Eleven Days of Festivus 2018
It’s that time again! My Eleven Days of Festivus blogging extravaganza is now in its third year, and I’m happy...
2018-12-13
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Things I Learned at Summit v20 - Visual Studio Code
Part of a series of posts on cool stuff I learned at PASS Summit v20 (2018) - in this post we'll...
2018-12-13
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A curious case of case when and Null values
For some reason I have always written my Case statements using the following logic:
SELECT
CASE
WHEN @Priority = 1 THEN 'Very High'
WHEN @Priority...
2018-12-12 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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Bulk insert and an identity column
TL;DR; BULK INSERT doesn’t have an easy way to specify a column list so the columns in the insert file...
2018-12-12
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Getting the SQL Version from a backup using dbatools ………. on PowerShell Core
Following an upgrade to SQL Server the backup share had a number of backups, some from the old version and...
2018-12-12 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Lessons from the Phoenix Project–Leave Slack
Not @Slack, but slack time, time when you aren’t buried on a particular project.
In the book, The Phoenix Project, the...
2018-12-12
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Some databases may show a NULL collation in the sys.databases DMV
While working on my Swart’s Ten Percent Rule post last week, I needed to test the Windows version of the...
2018-12-12
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Some differences with SQL Server when running on AWS RDS
If you plan on using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host your SQL Server based applications in the cloud, then...
2018-12-12
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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...
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