Run a Job on SQL Azure (Using SSIS Package)
Requirements: A valid azure account, Local Instance of SQL Server (>= 2012), SQL Server Data Tools, Excel 2007 or above
Scenario: Dump...
2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-11)
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PowerShell: Managing Service(s) Using WMI, CIM and Get-Service Cmdlet
Abstract
A common task of any administrator is to manage and maintain the application availability by checking the various services status,...
2017-03-10
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Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 2
I showed in my previous post how we generated the datasets for our Azure Data Factory pipelines. In this post, I’ll...
2017-03-21 (first published: 2017-03-10)
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Triad Developers Conference – My Debut
I did it! I did my first “real world” presentation this morning at the Triad Developers Conference in Winston-Salem. What...
2017-03-10
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A rare Reporting services issue
This post is about a reporting services configuration issue that you will face after changing the database server name. I’ve blogged about Changing SQL Server name and warned on...
2017-03-10
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A rare Reporting services issue
This post is about a reporting services configuration issue that you will face after changing the database server name. I’ve blogged about Changing SQL Server name and warned on...
2017-03-10
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SQL DB now supports 4TB max database size
Azure SQL Database (SQL DB) has increased its max database size from 1TB to 4TB at no additional cost.
Customers using...
2017-03-10
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A rare Reporting services issue
This post is about a reporting services configuration issue that you will face after changing the database server name. I’ve...
2017-03-10
284 reads
Friday Reading 2017-03-10
Just over a week to go until SQL Saturday Iceland! Really looking forward to presenting my session and then I...
2017-03-10
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My take on presenting
This idea basically started from Andy Bek’s TSQL Tuesday last year #84 growing new speakers (https://sqlbek.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/t-sql-tuesday-84-growing-new-speakers/ – thanks Andy) and I have...
2017-03-10
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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