Attending the Summit? Learn Networking With Don Gabor!
My friend, author, and networking guru Don Gabor is back at the Summit for the third year in a row,...
2011-10-04
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Me an MVP? It Really Happened
Yes, I was named a SQL Server MVP the most recent round of awards. I honestly can’t believe it. It...
2011-10-04
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GET MVP DEEP DIVES VOL 2 50% OFF - TODAY ONLY!
Quick blog post to let you know that a special ONE-DAY TODAY ONLY deal by the publisher of the fantastic SQL Server...
2011-10-04
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Index usage
Last week I blogged about how to get help identifying possible missing indexes by using some of the DMV’s provided...
2011-10-04
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TCP Chimney offload
On Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 2 TCP Chimney was enabled by default. It took me a while to...
2011-10-04
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Backup/Restore vs Detach & Attach
You want to move a database from one server to another. There are two options to do that.
1) Detach/Attach: To...
2011-10-04
1,021 reads
Attend the PASS Summit from Home, 2011 edition
Hidy-ho there, neighbors! This is an update of last year’s Attend the PASS Summit from Home blog. I’ll be updating this...
2011-10-03
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SQL Server – Marking a stored procedure as system object
Marking a stored procedure as system object allows to run the procedure in a user database context. There are two...
2011-10-03
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SQL Bits 9
SQL Bits was great
It’s been two years or more that I’ve been invited to SQL Bits. Not by email, but...
2011-10-03
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Using Configuration Tables in SSIS 2008/2005
SSIS packages are great ETL tools and can do just about anything you need in terms of ETL. Most organizations...
2011-10-03
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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