The Extended Event GUI
In the previous article in this series I shared the basics around assembling an XEvent session. The method used in...
2015-10-01 (first published: 2015-09-25)
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SQL Server SSIS: ReplaceNull
One of widespread problems in SSIS packages is to replace NULL values with some specific value. Unfortunately, before it was not a simple task as Integration Services didn’t have...
2015-09-25
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SQL Server SSIS: ReplaceNull
One of widespread problems in SSIS packages is to replace NULL values with some specific value. Unfortunately, before it was not a simple task as Integration Services didn’t have...
2015-09-25
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SQL Server SSIS: ReplaceNull
One of widespread problems in SSIS packages is to replace NULL values with some specific value. Unfortunately, before it was...
2015-09-25
1,330 reads
Azure Virtual Machine Blog Series – Changing the size of a VM
I’m starting a new blog series on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, and my goal is to write blog posts exclusively on...
2015-09-30 (first published: 2015-09-24)
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I Was Once a Very Crappy Carpenter + SQL Bolts to Buzzwords
Tonight I spoke to Dr. Alkadi's CMPS 411 class, which was hijacked by the Hammond .NET User Group onsite at...
2015-09-24
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Use SCOPE_IDENTITY()–SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2015-10-02 (first published: 2015-09-24)
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Assembling a Session
With the core concepts in place as a good foundation to Extended Events, we start pushing these things together to help with assembling a session in Extended Events.
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2015-09-24
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Assembling a Session
Up to this point, I have taken a lot of time to discuss the various components of Extended Events. There is...
2015-09-24
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Excel as a Database Professional
People ask me all the time how to become a DBA. This is a topic that so many colleagues of
mine...
2015-09-24
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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