Watch out – new Database Level Health Detection can send your AOAG down!
Background
In the past, Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster only monitored the health of your entire Always On Availability Groups...
2018-11-20
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Blog Posts
Would you give our database monitoring the UX thumbs up?
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.” You’ve probably heard this, and other similar UX advice, before. We are passionate believers in...
2018-11-20
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Would you give our database monitoring the UX thumbs up?
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.” You’ve probably heard this, and other...
2018-11-20
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2018-11-19
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2018-11-19
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A New Video - Create a DB Executor Role
A long long time ago, I wrote a blog post showing how to create db_executor role in SQL Server. There...
2018-11-19 (first published: 2018-11-12)
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Ethics in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft redid its Data Science Track not too long ago and they added several courses and new progress points. One...
2018-11-19 (first published: 2018-11-08)
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Fun with PowerShell: I made a game
So we got to playing around with PowerShell last week – one son is making a game hack, and the other...
2018-11-19
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Happy Thanksgiving Readers!
I wanted to take a moment and wish an easy week in the office and a Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
The...
2018-11-19
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PASS Summit 2018 - Photos
My album of people and events at Summit 2018. Somehow a number of photo opportunities were missed!
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2018-11-19
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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...
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