Another way to move SQL DB to Azure
About 8 months ago I wrote an article (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server/139998/ ) where I showed you how to migrate your “earth” SQL Database...
2016-10-20
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I like you, but I don't like your best practice (power plans)!
I saw this tweet from the always awesome @DBArgenis and @sqldbawithbeard and couldn't help but feel a bead of sweat...
2016-10-20
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This Week In Data – Episode 9 (What Does Pizza Have to Do with the Cloud?)
Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed our previous episodes, you can watch them...
2016-10-19
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Data Warehouse Fast Track for SQL Server 2016
Microsoft Data Warehouse Fast Track for SQL Server 2016 is a joint effort between Microsoft and its hardware partners to...
2016-10-19
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Fun and Contests at Summit 2016
I’ll be attending the 2016 Pass Summit as a part of the Redgate Software crew. I’m not speaking this year,...
2016-10-19
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Webinar Available On Demand – Building an Auditing Framework for SQL Server
Recently I gave an introductory webinar on how to build an auditing framework for SQL Server. The focus was for...
2016-10-19
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Installing SQLCMD
For anyone who wasn’t aware SQLCMD is a command line tool for running T-SQL statements and scripts. Before anyone says...
2016-10-19
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2016-10-18
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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