PayPal for Non Profits
Part of having 501c(3) status is figuring out where and how it might make a difference. Applying for non profit...
2018-12-11
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Blog Posts
SQL Census–From the Redgate Foundry
The Foundry at Redgate Software is our version of Microsoft Research. Kind of. We tackle some projects that are interesting...
2018-12-11
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SQL Server I/O
Sometimes I like to see and know what SQL server is doing under certain operations and recently I wrote an...
2018-12-11
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To Influence or Be Influenced?
How have you impacted somebody in the community?
Well, have I come up with a doozy of a topic for this...
2018-12-11
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To Influence or Be Influenced?
Getting feedback from others is that little check that is needed to help progress and move in the right direction. When allowing time and opportunity for feedback from others,...
2018-12-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #109 – Mentors and Mentees
G’day again,
So, it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the blog party
started by Adam Machanic (
This time we're talking about people...
2018-12-11
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Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications
This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 - merge joins, and part 3 - hash match joins).
Watch...
2018-12-11
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Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications
This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 - merge joins, and part 3 - hash match joins).
Watch...
2018-12-11
25 reads
Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications
This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 – merge...
2018-12-11
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Data Warehousing Tip #1 – Store fact data at the leaf level
My first data warehousing tip is to store fact data at the leaf level. If you aggregate your fact data...
2018-12-10
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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