Not An Administrator For Analysis Services Tabular
A couple of weeks back I installed SQL Server 2016 on my personal machine, including SSAS Tabular. Yesterday I created...
2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-02-28)
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Configuring and analyzing the Query Store through dbatools
In case you didn’t know this already, dbatools is an awesome collection of Powershell functions that will help you immensely...
2017-03-08 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
In the next few months I will be speaking at some awesome events around Europe.
SQLBits – April 5-8
SQLBits is THE SQL...
2017-02-27
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Speaking at VS Live–Austin
I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live – Austin in May 2017. I was fortunate to be selected to speak again,...
2017-02-27
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Database cloning – CLONEDATABASE
Database cloning is a new feature supported in SQL Server. Only SQL Server 2014 SP2 and SQL Server 2016 SP1 support cloning. The command syntax is very simple [crayon-5e96566157e7c824875345/]...
2017-02-27
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Database cloning – CLONEDATABASE
Database cloning is a new feature supported in SQL Server. Only SQL Server 2014 SP2 and SQL Server 2016 SP1 support cloning. The command syntax is very simple [crayon-5e81b52ed8fb5359335187/]...
2017-02-27
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Database cloning – CLONEDATABASE
Database cloning is a new feature supported in SQL Server. Only SQL Server 2014 SP2 and SQL Server 2016 SP1...
2017-02-27
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Queries with optional parameters
These are those queries where you are pulling for, let’s say, a first name, a last name, a state, and/or...
2017-03-06 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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SQL VNext sp_configure on Windows and Linux with dbatools
This weekend I set up some SQL vNext virtual machines, two on Windows and one on Linux so that I...
2017-03-07 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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The Empirical Rule
I am resuming technical blogging after a gap of nearly a month. I will continue to blog my re learning...
2017-03-02 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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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