PowerShell – Get an UNC of a remote folder
To Read/Write/Rename/Copy/Delete a file configured across ‘N’ of servers in the same path, this script is going to be very...
2013-04-22
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SQL – Table data – HTML Format & Email Sending using T-SQL
1) Configure DBMail - In this case the ‘TEST’ profile being created for the demo
2) Create Table – TLOG_Metrics
3) Insert the dumnmy...
2013-04-22
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Does TDE really work on MDF files?
Yes, it does. However, let’s prove it. First let’s create a database, a table, and enter some data:
-- create a...
2013-04-26 (first published: 2013-04-22)
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #29
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of...
2013-04-22
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Native SSMS a second class citizen no longer…
Intellisense can be a boon to adding quick development. Quick hints on scope specific variables, syntax suggestions, function descriptions and...
2013-04-22
930 reads
SQLSaturday Philadelphia, Cocoa Beach, Orlando, and Charleston
I’ll be attending and presenting at SQLSaturday #200 in Philadelphia in June, then I’ll be attending the first ever SQLSaturday...
2013-04-22
652 reads
Resolving data redundancy up front
Introduction
As all of us do when confronted with a problem, the resource of choice is to ‘Google it’.
This is where...
2013-04-22
1,294 reads
Who writes your documentation?
I’ve been thinking recently about who writes the best documentation. Not including a professional technical writer (although they actually do...
2013-04-22
817 reads
Cumulative Update – 7 for SQL Server 2012 RTM Is Now Available !
The 7th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 RTM is now available. Cumulative Update 7 contains all the hotfixes...
2013-04-22
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SQL Server Training in the Summer Time
Its been a long winter so far this weekend has seen the first signs of spring here in South Wales,...
2013-04-22
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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