Disk Space Monitoring using SQL Server DMV
DMV : sys.dm_os_volume_stats
Being a SQL Server database administrator, you may often receive alerts or asked by Senior DBAs to check, if...
2017-01-09
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Moving to WordPress.com
For years I’ve hosted WordPress somewhere, most recently in Azure using Project Nami so that I could store all the...
2017-01-08
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Columnstore Indexes – part 95 (“Basic Query Patterns”)
Continuation from the previous 94 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In this blog post I am continuing...
2017-01-07
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Understanding Network Latency and Impact on Availability Group Replication
When designing Availability Group systems one of the first pieces of information I ask clients for is how much transaction log their databases generate. *Roughly*, this is going to...
2017-01-06
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Understanding Network Latency and Impact on Availability Group Replication
When designing Availability Group systems one of the first pieces of information I ask clients for is how much transaction...
2017-01-17 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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Refreshing the SQL Server PowerShell Provider
Sometimes SSMS gives you stale results and there you have the Refresh button to fix that. In SQL PowerShell, the same situation can arise where the SQL Server PowerShell...
2017-01-06
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Refreshing the SQL Server PowerShell Provider
Sometimes SSMS gives you stale results and there you have the Refresh button to fix that. In SQL PowerShell, the same situation can arise where the SQL Server PowerShell...
2017-01-06
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Refreshing the SQL Server PowerShell Provider
Sometimes SSMS gives you stale results and there you have the Refresh button to fix that.
In SQL PowerShell, the same...
2017-01-06
549 reads
Easy Database Space with dbatools
One of the things that I’ve seen DBAs query for is free space in a database. In fact, this is...
2017-01-20 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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What is ETL?
In my ongoing series on ETL Best Practices, I am illustrating a collection of extract-transform-load design patterns that have proven...
2017-01-16 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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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