Unleashing my inner Viking, SQLBits and more…
In case you didn't know SQLBits 9 ,”Query across the Mersey”, is taking place in Liverpool from September 21st to...
2011-08-31
1,569 reads
Are You Willing To Relocate?
I've recently been talking to people looking for DBAs and one of the questions that always gets asked early on...
2011-08-31
2,726 reads
Receive error #13119 in toolbox instead of tools in Visual Studio 2008
A couple of times over the past few months, while in Visual Studio 2008 working on an SSIS package, I went...
2011-08-31
2,169 reads
BI Battle Royale–Adam beats up a Hippie
Weekday Lunch RAW!
Welcome to the Smack-down ladies and gentleman. I couldn?t believe it when Brian walked into my office the...
2011-08-31
1,802 reads
Check the Default Database Setting for your Admin Accounts
Last weekend, as I was waiting for the start of the performance of the Cleveland Orchestra at its summer outdoor...
2011-08-31
1,820 reads
Presenting at Curacao SQL UG
On Thursday, Sept 1, 2011 at 7:15pm EST, I’ll be presenting via LiveMeeting to the Curacao SQL Server User Group....
2011-08-31
1,674 reads
Bitwise and Derived Table revisited
Today I am going to revisit two posts from the past couple of weeks. I want to revisit them just to make some minor updates and clarifications. This is...
2011-08-31
14 reads
Bitwise and Derived Table revisited
Today I am going to revisit two posts from the past couple of weeks. I want to revisit them just...
2011-08-31
1,812 reads
Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in SSIS
Converting EBCDIC to ASCII in SSIS 2008 can seem like a daunting task. There is a lot of manual work...
2011-08-31
8,742 reads
Sharon Dooley’s Lightening Talk and the WIT Luncheon
At the end of last week I received an email from my friend and colleague Sharon Dooley telling me her...
2011-08-31
2,531 reads
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