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comparing instances
When working with a variety of instances, you can often deal with variances in configuration that might impact the...
2016-06-22 (first published: 2016-06-14)
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It’s 2016 RLS for T-SQL Tuesday #79
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again. I missed last month, being busy with travel, though I should go ahead and write...
2016-06-14
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Comparing two query plans
This month my friend Michael J Swart(b/t) would like us to talk about the new 2016 version of SQL Server....
2016-06-20 (first published: 2016-06-14)
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TSQL Tuesday #79 -SQL Server 2016 Launch Discovery Day (aka Hackathon)
The host for T-SQL Tuesday #79 is Michael J. Swart (b|t), and his topic of choice is to write about...
2016-06-14
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Two new authentication options in SSMS 2016
Until SSMS 2014 there were the two standard authentication options for connecting to a SQL Server instance: Windows Authentication and...
2016-06-14
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We Must Wait for SP1 before Upgrading to SQL Server 2016
This post is for T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Michael Swart (blog | twitter). This month’s topic is all about SQL Server 2016
I’ve been...
2016-06-14
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T-SQL Tuesday 79 - It's SQL Server 2016 - stupid
Well, today is a busy T-SQL Tuesday no. 79, (it's also Flag Day in the U.S, and also a clerical...
2016-06-14
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The CHECK constraints unlike behaviours
The CHECK constraints enforce integrity by limiting the values that are accepted by one or more columns. You can create a CHECK constraint with any logical expression that returns...
2016-06-13
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The CHECK constraints unlike behaviours
The CHECK constraints enforce integrity by limiting the values that are accepted by one or more columns. You can create a CHECK constraint with any logical expression that returns...
2016-06-13
18 reads
The CHECK constraints unlike behaviours
The CHECK constraints enforce integrity by limiting the values that are accepted by one or more columns. You can create...
2016-06-13
278 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