T-SQL Tuesday #82–Azure SQL Database
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time and this month we have Jeffrey Verheul giving us the topic of the cloud, or Azure...
2016-09-13
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Bringing Database Devops to DevConnections
Another alliteration post. Maybe I’ll make all my titles tongue twisters to test your talents?
This is my new favorite session....
2016-09-13
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Migrating to Azure - Quirks & Tips
Recently I have moved a dozen websites and web apps to Azure. Some are small apps used by a few...
2016-09-13
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Columnstore & Memory-Optimised Workshop in Redmond (10.31-11.02 2016)
I am so happy that I can finally announce the very first Columnstore & Memory-Optimised Tables Workshop in the USA: on...
2016-09-13
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Budgeting for SQL Saturdays
We’ve been doing SQLSaturdays for eight years at Louisville now. We’ve had a quite a wide range of budgets depending on...
2016-09-13
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What is a SARGable predicate?
‘SARGable’ is a weird term. It gets bandied around a lot when talking about indexes and whether queries can seek on indexes. The term’s an abbreviation, ‘SARG’ stands for...
2016-09-13
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What is a SARGable predicate?
‘SARGable’ is a weird term. It gets bandied around a lot when talking about indexes and whether queries can seek...
2016-09-13
179 reads
What is a SARGable predicate?
‘SARGable’ is a weird term. It gets bandied around a lot when talking about indexes and whether queries can seek...
2016-09-13
1,736 reads
Interview Questions for Companies
In this article I will be posting interview questions by companies. Whenever I am facing any interview or someone shares...
2016-09-13
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Azure: Creating a BACPAC from an On-Premises SQL Server Database
So to start, what’s a BACPAC?
Per the Azure documentation
When you need to create an archive of an Azure SQL database,...
2016-09-13
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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