Looking Back: #sqldinner at #sqlsummit 2016
Last week was the 2016 Pass Summit, and this was one of the few times that PASS did not provide...
2016-11-02
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Live 360–SQL in Orlando
I’ll be at the last big SQL Server conference in the US for 2016 this December. VS Live is a...
2016-11-10 (first published: 2016-11-02)
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Why is SQL Server scanning the clustered index when I have an index on the column I am filtering on?
*Originally published in our old blog on January 2009
I ran into a very simple SQL Server performance related question the other day. A puzzled DBA was staring at a...
2016-11-02
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Why is SQL Server scanning the clustered index when I have an index on the column I am filtering on?
*Originally published in our old blog on January 2009
I ran into a very simple SQL Server performance related question the...
2016-11-02
212 reads
A Data Professional’s Story – PASS Summit 2016
This year is different. Why? I’m not sure yet. There is a lot of reflection going on since my return...
2016-11-11 (first published: 2016-11-02)
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Query Store custom SSMS performance dashboard
As most of you might know, I am a big fan of the Query Store feature inside SQL Server 2016....
2016-11-08 (first published: 2016-11-02)
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New indexes, hypothetically
I saw something like this the other day. My first thought was “Hu, never seen that before.” My second thought...
2016-11-02
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Trick or Treat...Have I got an IT Training treat for you...
It Trick or Treat on Monday...Two days on and I have a treat for you. Learning Tree's Great Value IT...
2016-11-02
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SQL Server DMA v2.0 – Migration Time
In my last post I showed you how to conduct an assessment using DMA – Database Migration Assessment tool v2.0 This...
2016-11-02
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SQL : How to Find Unused Indexes details
The Dynamic Management View (DMV) named sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats that track index usage details of the database. This DMV gives an information about...
2016-11-01
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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