Restore with Standby–#SQLNewBlogger
A customer had a question about restoring with standby, so I wrote a quick post to explain how this works. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully...
2023-08-30
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Remotely Check Disks Space, Find Large Files and Remove Old Files - PowerShell
Remotely Check Disks Space, Find Large Files and Remove Old Files - PowerShell
For a very important client, I currently manage over 200 SQL...
2023-08-29
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Chicago Database DevOps in a Day Workshop
I’m heading to Chicago today for the Redgate Database DevOps in a Day workshops. This is the first of many on the US tour. I’ll be at 5 of...
2023-08-29
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Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query
One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Introduction to IaC: Deploying Data infrastructure to Azure using Terraform (Part 3 - Azure SQL Database)
In Part 1, we explain the basics and prerrequisites to work with Terraform.In Part 2, we created our first Azure resource.On this post we will create an Azure SQL...
2023-09-20 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Deneb – powerful visual for advanced reporting
Introduction
For one of our customers we needed to create customized reports that could not be easily implemented by using standard Power BI components. We explored different ways how to...
2023-09-22 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Friday Flyway Tips: More Config Options
Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-08-25)
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A New Word: mahpiohanzia
mahpiohanzia – n. the frustration of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the burden of your...
2023-08-25
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Open Online Community Hangout During PASS Summit
Are you bummed that you can’t attend the PASS Data Community Summit conference in-person this November during the week of November 13? There’s lots of reasons to be there,...
2023-08-25
59 reads
ADS Copilot Experiments with XML
I sent some code to a customer recently to help them decrypt some stored procedures. I sent a quick and dirty set of code, noting at the bottom that...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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