SQL Saturday#197–Omaha Recap
This was the second SQL Saturday hosted in Omaha. I loved to see how the event grew from the first...
2013-04-12
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DBA Question of The Day: What is SAVE TRANSACTION?
Hello Dear Reader! I was teaching a class in Chicago last week and I got a lot of really great...
2013-04-12
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SQL Server – Add Date/Time to output file of BCP / SQLCMD (2)
Last time I posted about How you can add date/time to output file name, in which I used xp_cmdshell to...
2013-04-12
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PASS Business Analytics Conference Live Blog
Apologies if you went to my site this morning to see my blog from the bloggers table at PASS Business Analytics...
2013-04-12
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PowerShell and SQL – Easy and Different Ways to Find Number of Rows of all Tables in a database
SQL Example:
DECLARE @TableRowsCount table
(
Tablename varchar(50),
cnt int)
insert into @TableRowsCount
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1=” select ‘?’,count(*) from ?”
select * from @TableRowsCount
PowerShell Example:
Load SQL PowerShell by...
2013-04-11
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I See BI People
A tweet from Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt) this morning…
I’m surrounded by BI people!!!!#passbac
— Ted Krueger (@onpnt) April 11, 2013
inspired a little creativity…
You...
2013-04-11
776 reads
Entertainment for the Traveling Consultant (UltraViolet Review)
Like many of us, I have a collection of favorite movies. These include Ghostbusters, Stripes, Serenity, and dozens more. I...
2013-04-11
776 reads
Discover, Diagnose, and Document ALL Your SQL Servers On Your Coffee Break
We all know that we should document our SQL Servers, right? RIGHT?
So let's say you had some time on...
2013-04-24 (first published: 2013-04-11)
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SQL 2005 or above – Find Transaction Rate on a busy OLTP Database
Change Database name of a below mentioned query
DECLARE @cntr_value1 bigint
DECLARE @cntr_value2 bigint
SELECT ‘BEFORE’
SELECT @cntr_value1 = cntr_value
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE counter_name = ‘transactions/sec’
AND object_name = ‘SQLServer:Databases’
AND...
2013-04-11
626 reads
PowerShell – CHECK, START and STOP SQL Services of a remote servers
Replace a valid server name in the following examples. Try to do a testing on your local machine and understand...
2013-04-11
3,373 reads
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