New Article: Loading Fixed Width Files to Staging Tables
My article “SSIS Design Pattern – Staging Fixed Width Flat Files” is published on SQLServerCentral.com. In the article, I provide a...
2015-10-06
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Extended Event Management Power Tools
PowerShell can pack a pretty big punch when dealing with Extended Events. Using PowerShell as one of your Extended Events Management Tools, there could be a bit of a...
2015-10-06
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Extended Event Management Power Tools
So far in this series I have introduced a couple of tools that are suitable for helping with the management...
2015-10-06
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Load Testing Your Storage Subsystem with Diskspd – Part III
In our final post in our “Load Testing Your Storage Subsystem with Diskspd” series, we’re going to look at output from Diskspd and run some tests and interpret results....
2015-10-06
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The Future Virtualization of the Workforce - Telecommuting
Welcome to the 21st century! 20th
century habits die hard! What am I
talking about today? I’m talking about the virtuous virtue...
2015-10-06
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Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q3
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the third quarter of 2015.
Retrieve file sizes from the file system...
2015-10-06
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Table valued parameters (TVP)
Table values parameters
How we can pass multiple rows in stored procedure or function as a parameter?
Table-valued parameters are a new...
2015-10-06
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Handling decimal and non numeric types using Case statement
Hi Guys
Just encountered a scenario where I needed to handle numeric and non numeric types using Case statement. Here is the...
2015-10-14 (first published: 2015-10-06)
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2015-10-05
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2015-10-05
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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