Adding Minutes in Excel
A short one, but I found myself wasting time recently. I use an Excel sheet to schedule some items out...
2016-02-26 (first published: 2016-02-22)
1,915 reads
Why Is The Server Slow?
This is blog post #2 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel.
If you haven’t been working in SQL Server for very...
2016-02-24 (first published: 2016-02-22)
2,848 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #75: Round Up
This month I challenged the blogging community to share their own creations in Power BI. We got a ton of great entries this month, thank you everyone who participated!...
2016-02-22
28 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #75: Round Up
This month I challenged the blogging community to share their own creations in Power BI. We got a ton of great entries this month, thank you everyone who participated!...
2016-02-22
25 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #75: Round Up
This month I challenged the blogging community to share their own creations in Power BI. We got a ton of...
2016-02-26 (first published: 2016-02-22)
1,559 reads
You are not logged on as the database owner or system administrator.
I had one of my developers ask me why he keeps seeing the following warning when he tries to modify...
2016-02-22
1,150 reads
Wait Stats Baseline Comparison – Idera Diagnostic Manager
Database servers have to wait on different resources, and these waits are huge to the performance of SQL Server. Sometimes something changes without our knowledge and is running differently...
2016-02-22
28 reads
Wait Stats Baseline Comparison – Idera Diagnostic Manager
Database servers have to wait on different resources, and these waits are huge to the performance of SQL Server. Sometimes...
2016-02-22
692 reads
2016-02-21
283 reads
Introduction to Big Data
So you’ve been working as a DBA or a BI developer for several years now. You know your stuff very...
2016-02-21
363 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