New Year Wish List for SQL Server Features
With SQL Server 2016 to be officially released this year, I want to make a wish list for the features...
2016-01-15 (first published: 2016-01-10)
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Sudoku by SQL Part 3 of 3
The Challenge
Since I came across the first sudoku I was wondering if it could by solved by SQL using queries...
2016-01-09
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Sudoku by SQL Part 1 of 3
The Challenge
Since I came across the first sudoku I was wondering if it could by solved by SQL using queries...
2016-01-09
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Creating a Matrix in Power BI With Multiple Values on Rows
This week I was asked to create a matrix in a Power BI report that looks like this:
Matrix with Values on...
2016-01-09
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We Want You!
It seems like PASS Summit 2015 was just yesterday and here we are again, getting ready for Summit 2016 already. ...
2016-01-08
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Advent of Code Day 1, Puzzle B
As I continue through the Advent of Code, albeit slowly, I’m solving each puzzle 3 days. I worked through 6...
2016-01-08
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Why is my SQL Server using all of the RAM on the server?
The TL;DR on this is simple:
"BECAUSE IT'S SUPPOSED TO!"
A frequent complaint we receive comes from a client that has an...
2016-01-14 (first published: 2016-01-08)
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Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)
Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)
… Continuation of some notes regarding the excellent content by Paul Randal in Pluralsight: SQL Server:...
2016-01-08
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Trace Flag 3226 - Suppress all successful backups in SQL server error log
SQL server error log contain all information about how a SQL server is running, what is happening and occurring for...
2016-01-13 (first published: 2016-01-08)
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Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)
... Continuation of some notes regarding the excellent content by Paul Randal in Pluralsight: SQL Server: Logging, Recovery, and the Transaction...
2016-01-08
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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