Script Out Foreign Keys With Multiple Keys
It's easy enough to use sys.foreign_keys and sys.foreign_key_columns to identify foreign keys. But what if you want to script out your foreign...
2013-02-18
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Inserting Binary Data
There are a number of articles on dealing with the insertion of binary data into SQL Server using BULK INSERT,...
2013-02-17
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Using Foreign Keys to Determine Table Insertion Order
Here's a script to determine, based on your database's foreign key relationships, what the insertion order would be for, say,...
2013-02-17
1,546 reads
A year of SQL Lunchs
Time does fly, and happy birthday SQL Lunch UK.
It has been a year since the first SQLLunch UK, and over...
2013-02-17
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 17 (Databases: Views)
Welcome to Day 17 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-17
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Fun with dates
Every year me and a group of friends attend the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford, for us it...
2013-02-17
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 16 (Databases: Triggers)
Welcome to Day 16 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-16
971 reads
I’m dropping the book project
Update:
This book project got its second life. I am now collaborating with another author to bring this book to completion....
2013-02-16
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Reblog: February 8 to February 14
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-15
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23 Pieces of News and Fluffery (Feb 9-15)
I have a news segment on DBAs@Midnight (our live weekly webshow, tune in tonight at 11pm Central time), but there’s...
2013-02-15
748 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