SQL Server Partitioning for Performance
Often enough I get questions regarding partitioning to try to help alleviate performance issues with very large tables. A common misconception is that due to the table being large,...
2022-07-12
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New Database Job – The 90 Day Plan
In my first post, I reference that by the end of your first 30 days you should have a 90-day plan of things to tackle at your job and...
2022-07-25 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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T-SQL Tuesday #152–It Depends
A great invitation this month from Deborah Melkin. I thought this was very apt, as I use this phrase often. Many of us do. This was a tougher post...
2022-07-12
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Daily Coping 12 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-12
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You’re doing your POC wrong! : T-SQL Tuesday #152
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! Deborah Melkin (blog|twitter) is our host this month and she’d like to hear our opinion. A ... Continue reading
2022-07-27 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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What's in a name? (T-SQL Tuesday #152)
Foreword
This month’s invitation is from Deborah Melkin (b|t), about venting anything you want. So let’s start this rant.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...
2022-07-29 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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Extended Events for Anything But Query Tuning: xml_deadlock_report_filtered
One of my favorite little bits of information about Extended Events is the fact that everyone running a full instance of SQL Server has deadlock information available to them,...
2022-07-11
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SQLServerCarpenter Tools
Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed several tools that I’ve been using during my Performance Tuning and other related assignments. I thought to share it with the...
2022-07-22 (first published: 2022-07-11)
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Daily Coping 11 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-11
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usp_SQLServerCarpenter_Tools_GenerateTSQLCode_For_Get_Put_APIs
This procedure will generate SQL Code for Get and Put API's. This may be useful if you are developing your own data replication strategy to replicate data across multiple...
2022-07-11
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
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The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
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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