About me
I have been developing software from my early teens and stayed with technology after leaving school. Initially focussing on software development, networking and IT support type roles, I found...
2017-05-03
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Finding Free Space Per Drive & Mount Point in PowerShell
Back in 2010 I was inspired by a twitter conversation between Nicolas Cain (blog | twitter) and Dave Levy (blog | twitter) about checking Disk Space & Mount Points...
2017-05-03
15 reads
Finding Free Space Per Drive & Mount Point in PowerShell
Back in 2010 I was inspired by a twitter conversation between Nicolas Cain (blog | twitter) and Dave Levy (blog | twitter) about checking Disk Space & Mount Points...
2017-05-03
18 reads
Finding Free Space Per Drive & Mount Point in PowerShell
Back in 2010 I was inspired by a twitter conversation between Nicolas Cain (blog | twitter) and Dave Levy (blog | twitter) about checking Disk Space & Mount Points...
2017-05-03
21 reads
Finding Free Space Per Drive & Mount Point in PowerShell
Back in 2010 I was inspired by a twitter conversation between Nicolas Cain (blog | twitter) and Dave Levy (blog | twitter)...
2017-05-03
984 reads
Additional Presentation at 24 Hours of PASS
I’ve had another presentation added for the 24 Hours of PASS; this one is the first session of the line-up,...
2017-05-02
380 reads
How to fix your terribly slow SQL job
How many times have you written a program, ETL, analysis job, etc… that seemed like it would never finish running?
Although poor performance can be caused in a multitude of...
2017-05-02
34 reads
Building a container running SQL Server 2014 SP2 Developer
One of the things about working with SQL in Docker is that you kinda have to use the images that...
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-02)
2,426 reads
I’m Speaking! SQL Saturday #617 – Pensacola
In early June, I’ll be traveling to Pensacola, Florida for their annual SQL Saturday. This will be my second time...
2017-05-02
332 reads
Die neue SQL Server Master-Class: Warum ein SQLSentry Bootcamp
The new SQL Server Master-Class in – why a SQLSentry Bootcamp
(DE) Die wichtigsten Infos gerafft zuerst: Vom 26. bis 28. Juni führe ich in Frankfurt eine neue SQL Server...
2017-05-02
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Split Large Queries in Athena...
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