First foray into presenting
It’s been a while since I’ve posted as the run up to Xmas last year and this January have been...
2016-01-29
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Easy way to test log shipping or availability groups setup
Have been working through the fantastic training resources from Brent Ozar’s Everything Bundle and on the recommended resources they mention...
2016-01-29
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SQL Server Management Studio Setup and Configuration
This is my first #entrylevel blog post. The challenge identified by the tags #entrylevel and #Iwanttoshare was started by Tim...
2016-01-28
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SQL Server Principals – Back to Basics
A fundamental component of SQL Server is the security layer. A principle player in security in SQL Server comes via principals.
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2016-01-28
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SQL Server Principals – Back to Basics
Prelude in SQL Minor
Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to...
2016-02-03 (first published: 2016-01-28)
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Memory Fundamentals for SQL Server - Virtual Memory, /3GB Switch
Just a few days back I was asked a very basic question related to AWE and /3GB switch.I was surprised...
2016-01-28
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Save the date: SQLSaturday Iowa City
Q: True or False – Iowa has one of the world’s longest-running SQL Server conferences?
A: True! SQLSaturday #19 was held in the fall of...
2016-01-28
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Where in the world are Jen and Sean?
Updated with more SQL Saturdays! Well hi there, folks. A month slips by so very fast. Here is your January...
2016-01-28
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Reblog: Building the Script Component
SQLKover update: For some reason, this was my most popular blog post on the old LTD site. Over 110,000 views. People...
2016-01-28
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Encrypting AlwaysOn Availability Group Transport- Some thoughts!
Transport security for AlwaysOn Availability Group is an interesting topic, and any day it’s a topic which is debatable. The transport security involves encryption of packets exchanged between the...
2016-01-28
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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