Filtered Statistics in SQL Server
In SQL Server, Filtered Statistics can improve cardinality estimation, i.e. when joining lookup table, or while joining fact table and dimension table. For this reason, SQL Server supports the...
2016-05-15
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Parallel Insert Into – Table Variable Vs Temporary Table in SQL Server
In SQL Server, for insert into select statements, when the target for insert into is temporary table, the select statement can execute in parallel. When the target is table...
2016-05-15
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Cardinality Estimation – Table Variable Vs Temporary Table in SQL Serve
SQL Server creates and maintains statistics for temporary tables, which lead to better cardinality estimation and optimal execution plan generation. Table variables have no statistics, which can result in...
2016-05-15
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Understanding ASYNC_NETWORK_IO Waits in SQL Server
In SQL Server, ASYNC_NETWORK_IO wait time can be high due to slow network, like when the database is in the cloud and the application is on premise. Furthermore, it...
2016-05-15
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SQLPASS SUMMIT 2016 Discount Code
SQLPASS SUMMIT 2016 is around, only few months left for this super event. Probably you all would have heard about...
2016-05-14
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Resource Governor in SQL Server – Workload Throttling
Resource Governor in SQL Server provides CPU, Memory and I/O throttling. In SQL Server 2014 and earlier, CPU throttling works only for similar kind of workloads and not for...
2016-05-14
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The Mysterious Black Box of R - For the SQL Server Guy
Took a class from Jamey Johnston @ SQLSaturday #516 in Houston. Lots of great information covered. Follow him for a much...
2016-05-20 (first published: 2016-05-14)
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Hello SQLSaturday Houston!
I've been looking forward to speaking at SQLSaturday Houston again all year!
Big thanks to the organizing crew behind this great...
2016-05-13
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The New Global Dashboard
Redgate recently released SQL Monitor 5.2, which is the latest upgrade to our monitoring/alerting/troubleshooting product for DBAs. This was the...
2016-05-13
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SQL Nexus
I was lucky enough to be accepted to speak at SQL Nexus in Copenhagen and I attended the event a...
2016-05-12
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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