PoSh on Ubuntu
I heard about the PowerShell announcement recently where the platform is porting over to Linux and OSX. I think this...
2016-08-29 (first published: 2016-08-19)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 12 – Bullet Chart)
In this module you will learn how to use the Bullet Chart Power BI Custom Visual. The Bullet Chart serves...
2016-08-30 (first published: 2016-08-19)
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TGI SQL Friday - Weekly Roundup Friday 19th August 2016
Its been a lovely week here in the UK as we approach the end of August. Sun has been out,...
2016-08-19
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SQL 2016 - Brief Overview on some new features
These are notes taken from the Houston SQL Pass User group from July. This presentation was given by John Cook,...
2016-08-19
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SQL 2016 - Brief Overview on some new features
SQL 2016 - New Functionality
These are notes taken from the Houston SQL Pass User group from July. This presentation was given...
2016-08-19
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T-SQL Tuesday #081: Recap
August 2016 TSQL Tuesday Recap
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T-SQL Tuesday #081: Recap
Sharpen Something
In case you missed it (many did), TSQL Tuesday was a challenging event this month. I invited people to...
2016-08-18
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Rounding Challenges–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-08-18
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Getting Started With PowerShell on Linux
Getting PowerShell on Linux Well it’s not just an announcement, you can actually get PowerShell on Linux and MacOS right now from GitHub – here!
Installing PowerShell Once you’ve downloaded...
2016-08-18
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Getting Started With PowerShell on Linux
Getting PowerShell on Linux
Well it’s not just an announcement, you can actually get PowerShell on Linux and MacOS right now...
2016-08-29 (first published: 2016-08-18)
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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