I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that a new version of the ReportingServicesTools module went out last week, and it includes 3 new PowerShell functions for working...
2021-02-08 (first published: 2021-01-28)
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This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. I started the Advent of Code at the beginning of December 2020, but life quickly got in the way. Weekends...
2021-02-08 (first published: 2021-01-27)
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Welcome back to my Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs series. Last week, we took a closer look at the first steps of getting your environment set...
2021-02-03 (first published: 2021-01-27)
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Jon Schwabish over at PolicyViz has created great initiative called the One Chart at a Time Video Series. It’s an effort to expand readers’ graphic literacy through short videos...
2021-02-03 (first published: 2021-01-27)
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(If you’d like to read my other T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective posts, click here.) In August 2010, Jason Brimhall (blog | Twitter) invited us to discuss preparing for vacations: “Write...
2021-01-27
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-01-27
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Every server, database, storage appliance and network encounter some sort of performance issues. It is a major part of our job as database administrators to properly monitor and fix...
2021-01-27
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Every server, database, storage appliance and network encounter some sort of performance issues. It is a major part of our job as database administrators to properly monitor and fix...
2021-01-27
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I’ll be speaking at the SQL Server Virtual Conference from C# Corner, Friday Jan 29, 2021, with my friend Julie Koesmarno ( b | t ). I’ll be showing...
2021-01-27
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I’ll be speaking at the SQL Server Virtual Conference from C# Corner, Friday Jan 29, 2021, with my friend Julie Koesmarno ( b | t ). I’ll be showing...
2021-01-27
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By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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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