PASSion Award and what it means to me
2016 is going to be a special year in my life. There was an article on Oscar awards a while...
2016-11-04 (first published: 2016-10-31)
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Thank you to @MrDenny
I wanted to take a quick moment to thank Denny Cherry for selecting me for Speaker Idol this year.
For...
2016-10-29
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PowerBi and API – Visualising my Checkins
For my own amusement and also to show my wife where I have been I use the Swarm check-in app...
2016-11-03 (first published: 2016-10-29)
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PASS Summit 2016 Recap
It has been a fantastic week here in Seattle at the annual PASS Summit. I’ve spent the last five days...
2016-10-28
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Selfies at Summit
Not all selfies, and not enough, but lots of changes to meet people at the Summit this week.
The other Steve...
2016-10-28
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PASS Summit Announcements: DMA/DEA
Microsoft usually has some interesting announcements at the PASS Summit, and this year was no exception. My next few blogs...
2016-10-28
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PASS Summit 2016 – Announcements
There have been different announcements for new and upcoming features in the Microsoft Data Technology ecosystem. The one today I...
2016-11-03 (first published: 2016-10-28)
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Data Compare on Temporal Tables
I hadn't seen much talk on doing data comparisons on temporal tables, as they are a new feature. I went...
2016-10-28
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PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part II
The second half of the day was spent talking with various speakers and attendees. I got into a great conversation...
2016-10-28
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Data Compare on Temporal Tables
I hadn't seen much talk on doing data comparisons on temporal tables, as they are a new feature. I went...
2016-11-02 (first published: 2016-10-28)
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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