Roundup for Un-SQL Friday #005: Bad Interviews
It’s time for the Un-SQL Friday #005 roundup!
From managers…
First up, The Lone DBA admits that he wasn’t always (ahem) one of us…he’s got...
2011-07-29
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Re-blog – July 22-July 28
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-07-29
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Calling SCOM in C#
Written by David Postlethwaite
I’m sure there are many out there using System Centre Operations Manager (or SCOM for short)...
2011-07-29
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Marking FK Constraints NOT FOR REPLICATION
When administering Merge Replication, sometimes we need to mark foreign
key constraints NOT FOR REPLICATION. In some cases, we might...
2011-07-29
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Build a schedule for SQL Saturday
A new feature has been added to SQL Saturday. Now when you register for an event you can build your...
2011-07-29
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Activity Monitor and Profiler
Today I came across a link to a neat little script for SQL 2005 / 2008 to help derive the head blocker in a blocking chain. That script can...
2011-07-28
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Activity Monitor and Profiler
Today I came across a link to a neat little script for SQL 2005 / 2008 to help derive the head...
2011-07-28
2,001 reads
T-SQL refactoring
Keeping your SQL objects’ naming rules during furious development is hard. New levels of information are added continuously, entities are...
2011-07-28
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How to move Cluster MSDTC Drive
I recently had the need to move the MSDTC for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It’s a quite simple...
2011-07-28
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When Did That Restore Finish?
I saw this question come across Twitter under the #sqlhelp tag one day and was wondering myself. Someone suggested the...
2011-07-28
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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