Azure Data Factory and the Case of the Missing JRE That Wasn’t
On a recent project I used Azure Data Factory (ADF) to retrieve data from an on premises SQL Server 2014...
2017-05-11 (first published: 2017-05-01)
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DAX calculations with hierarchies: Set the order straight.
[2017-Apr-30] If you have ever tried to create calculated measures in SSAS Tabular/ Power BI models where different levels of...
2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-04-30)
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Data Channel Interview - 06 - Manohar Punna on SQL Azure Migrations
Here we go for the 6th interview on #DataChannel. Manohar Punna, MVP and Data Platform Geeks President discusses "Migrations to SQL Azure" on #DataChannel. Manohar, in this interview provides...
2017-04-30
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Data Channel Interview - 06 - Manohar Punna on SQL Azure Migrations
Here we go for the 6th interview on #DataChannel. Manohar Punna, MVP and Data Platform Geeks President discusses "Migrations to SQL Azure" on #DataChannel. Manohar, in this interview provides...
2017-04-30
16 reads
Data Channel Interview - 06 - Manohar Punna on SQL Azure Migrations
Here we go for the 6th interview on #DataChannel. Manohar Punna, MVP and Data Platform Geeks President discusses "Migrations to...
2017-04-30
561 reads
Creating an App Service in Azure that connects to an Azure SQL Database.
Using the methodology listed in my previous blog post on creating an Azure SQL Database we now have a Continuous Integration...
2017-04-30
635 reads
Removing an Azure SQL Database using PowerShell..
In this post we will remove some databases located in Azure.
This related to my last post where I am cleaning...
2017-04-30
1,659 reads
Creating an Azure SQL Database via PowerShell
This post is about using the brilliance of PowerShell to script the creation of databases in Azure.
Background:
Apart from the obvious question...
2017-05-11 (first published: 2017-04-30)
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Multiple usage of functions to ensure “value” is not null? – NO
In this post I’m describing a piece of code that is not well written. The author (unknown) had applied three functions for a variable to ensure it never accepts...
2017-04-29
17 reads
Multiple usage of functions to ensure “value” is not null? – NO
In this post I’m describing a piece of code that is not well written. The author (unknown) had applied three functions for a variable to ensure it never accepts...
2017-04-29
36 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