Viewing Azure SQL DB security with sp_AzSQLDBPermissions
A few months back I put the Azure SQL DB version of my permissions script into beta. I’m not sure ... Continue reading
2019-12-18
61 reads
SSIS Layout Formatting Options
Most folks I know go to one extreme or the other when it comes to the visual layout of SQL Server Integration Services packages: either they don’t care a...
2019-12-18
836 reads
Trace Flags That Are Now Defaulted Behaviors in SQL Server
If you have ever attended one of my performance tuning sessions, you know I tend to talk about trace flags. Trace Flags can help fix performance issues and some...
2019-12-18
352 reads
Using a PoSh variable in a string- #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is something I haven’t quite understood or...
2019-12-18
113 reads
Configuration Manager is Corrupt
So you come along one day to validate some service configurations for the SQL Server services and instead of the SQL Server Configuration Manager opening as expected, you are...
2019-12-17
11 reads
Configuration Manager is Corrupt
So you come along one day to validate some service configurations for the SQL Server services and instead of the SQL Server Configuration Manager opening as expected, you are...
2019-12-17
189 reads
Right-Click File Options in SSMS and SSDT
Ordinarily I wouldn’t blog solely about a set of right-click options in an application, but in this Eleven Days of Festivus series I’m sharing some quick tips that have...
2019-12-17
232 reads
SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements?
DECLARE @val_varchar varchar(3) = '100';
DECLARE @val_bigint bigint = 100;
DECLARE @val_tinyint tinyint = 100;
PRINT('varchar...
2019-12-17
20 reads
SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements?
DECLARE @val_varchar varchar(3) = '100';
DECLARE @val_bigint bigint = 100;
DECLARE @val_tinyint tinyint = 100;
PRINT('varchar...
2019-12-17
22 reads
SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements? As you might have guessed, the first conversion truncates the value,...
2019-12-17
238 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