Probing Columnstore Indexes
In this article, our focus will be to test, the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload, for real-time analytics.
We'll cover examples from each of...
2020-03-29
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Understanding Disk Performance and IOPS in cloud platform
In the past many years, apart from working as DBA, I was working with multiple cloud technologies and actively involved in the migration process to cloud infrastructure. In between,...
2020-03-29
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Understanding Disk Performance and IOPS in cloud platform
In the past many years, apart from working as DBA, I was working with multiple cloud technologies and actively involved in the migration process to cloud infrastructure. In between,...
2020-04-06 (first published: 2020-03-29)
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COVID-19, a wake-up call
COVID-19 is the only pandemic I’ve seen in my whole life. It gave me a whole new percepective of the life. Kaal (Time) is mightiest of everyone and everything....
2020-03-28
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ASF 030: Benni De Jagere interview
Introduction Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack. On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee...
2020-03-27
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ASF 030: Benni De Jagere interview
Introduction Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack. On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee...
2020-03-27
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Going Dark in SSMS
I haven’t been a big fan of dark mode in many tools, but I’ve been giving it a try in some applications as my eyes age. I decided to...
2020-03-27
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Figuring Out How To Hide Production Data
There’s a really simple conundrum that we go through all the time. The best data for development is production You can’t have production data for development You have to...
2020-03-27
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Daily Coping 27 Mar 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-03-27
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Azure SQL Database: Great Choice for Modern Cloud Applications
Microsoft offers several options for moving your SQL Server workloads to Azure. If you’re looking to host modern cloud applications, your best option is Azure SQL Database Service. For...
2020-03-27
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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