Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2014 SP1
The 11th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 SP1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please...
2017-03-13
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Adding a PowerShell Job Step to an existing SQL Agent Job Step with PowerShell
In my last post I showed how to add a T-SQL Job step to an existing SQL Agent Job. The...
2017-03-13
1,150 reads
Monday Coffee 2017-03-13
Less than a week to go until SQLSaturday Iceland now, it’s going to be a busy couple of months for...
2017-03-13
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TSQL2sday – Daily database WTF
This month’s TSQL Tuesday is organized by Kennie T Pontoppidan(t) – the topic is ‘Daily Database WTF‘ – or a horror story...
2017-03-12
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VS Code PowerShell Snippets
Just a quick post, as much as a reminder for me as anything, but also useful to those that attended...
2017-03-17 (first published: 2017-03-12)
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Next Stop, SQL Saturday Richmond
I can’t believe it’s almost time for SQL Saturday #610. I’ll be there presenting What is Power BI? If you...
2017-03-11
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Thinking about Chapters (aka Groups)
I think it was 2003 or 2004 when someone from PASS came to Orlando and helped start what became OPASS....
2017-03-11
568 reads
Run a Job on SQL Azure (Using SSIS Package)
Requirements: A valid azure account, Local Instance of SQL Server (>= 2012), SQL Server Data Tools, Excel 2007 or above
Scenario: Dump...
2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-11)
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PowerShell: Managing Service(s) Using WMI, CIM and Get-Service Cmdlet
Abstract
A common task of any administrator is to manage and maintain the application availability by checking the various services status,...
2017-03-10
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Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 2
I showed in my previous post how we generated the datasets for our Azure Data Factory pipelines. In this post, I’ll...
2017-03-21 (first published: 2017-03-10)
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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