Slides For My 24 Hours of PASS Session
The slide deck for my session Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware is available here. There are still twelve...
2011-09-07
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Hustle and Bustle to Kick off September
September is kicking off with a boom for me. In one week, it seems I will be here, there and everywhere. Between SQL, PASS, Family, and User Group –...
2011-09-07
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Hustle and Bustle to Kick off September
September is kicking off with a boom for me. In one week, it seems I will be here, there and...
2011-09-07
821 reads
Thinking about taking a contract position? Questions to ask
Over the years, I have accumulated a set of questions that I usually ask the placement firm about a contract position...
2011-09-07
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Presenting Banish RBAR! at Richmond SQL UG
On Thursday, Sept 8, 2011 at 6:30pm EST, I’ll be presenting Banish RBAR! to the Richmond SQL Server User Group....
2011-09-07
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PASS Pre Con - Building a Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform
PASS Summit is quickly approaching and while many of you are registering I wanted to remind you of some of...
2011-09-07
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PASS Update #64 (Officer Elections)
Recently former PASS President Kevin Kline posted his thoughts on the current slate of officers. I encourage you to read...
2011-09-07
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SQLRelay Just Got Bigger Folks – The King is Back
Return of the King?
As if the original week of action planned was not enough SQLRelay just got Bigger!
Three brand new...
2011-09-07
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One hectic month ahead
The SQL Pass community summit is just around the corner. There is so little time and so much to do....
2011-09-07
1,400 reads
SQL Server Performance – September Story Contest 2011
SQL Server Performance – September Story Contest 2011
Want to win yourself an iPad2? Well you can! Tell your story, 50/50, refer...
2011-09-07
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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