Creating an HTML URL from a PowerShell String–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I wrote about getting a quick archive of...
2020-12-30
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2020 was certainly a year on the calendar
According to my blog post schedule, this is the final post of the year. It’s nothing more than a coincidence, but making it through the worst year in living...
2020-12-30
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Daily Coping 30 Dec 2020
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...
2020-12-30
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How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
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How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
9 reads
How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
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How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
9 reads
How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
11 reads
How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
13 reads
How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
8 reads
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...
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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