PASS Summit 2016 Wrapup
Last week I had one of the best experiences of my career – attending this year’s PASS Summit in Seattle. I...
2016-11-01
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Get Backup History for All Databases in Server
Here's a quick snippet to get a listing of the database backups that last occurred on a server. Most solutions...
2016-10-31
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Why Halloween slowed your queries
Let me start by saying that this isn’t your typical post about the Halloween problem. This is intended to describe...
2016-10-31
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Get Backup History for All Databases in Server
Here's a quick snippet to get a listing of the database backups that last occurred on a server. Most solutions...
2016-10-31
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Watch my PASS Summit Session on PASS TV
I’m just returning from an amazing week at PASS Summit where I meet many of you while working our Pragmatic...
2016-11-08 (first published: 2016-10-31)
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t-sql random string generator
Note: originally published in our old blog on December 2008.
CodeProject
This is a simple stored procedure that you can use to generate a random string. You can use it...
2016-10-31
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t-sql random string generator
Note: originally published in our old blog on December 2008.
CodeProjectThis is a simple stored procedure that you can use...
2016-10-31
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A Recap of PASS Summit 2016
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. It’s time for the annual PASS Summit. Just like every year, I...
2016-10-31
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The Halloween Problem
DBA: Help me! Help me! It’s Halloween! I have a problem! Oh won’t you please help me!
Ok, so that’s really...
2016-11-07 (first published: 2016-10-31)
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Master Data Services – Database Error has Occured when Publishing Business Rule
I was preparing a demo for a session about the new features of Master Data Services in SQL Server 2016....
2016-11-04 (first published: 2016-10-31)
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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