Daily Coping 17 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...
2020-12-17
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No Scalars with JSON_QUERY–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I started to dig into JSON queries recently,...
2020-12-25 (first published: 2020-12-16)
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ETL Antipattern: No Error Handling Logic
I usually avoid talking about technology in absolutes, but here’s one that I can share without reservation: On a long enough timeline, every single ETL process will eventually fail....
2020-12-16
21 reads
ETL Antipattern: No Error Handling Logic
I usually avoid talking about technology in absolutes, but here’s one that I can share without reservation: On a long enough timeline, every single ETL process will eventually fail....
2020-12-28 (first published: 2020-12-16)
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year Redux 2020
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invited us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve decided to try to make this yearly habit. This year...
2020-12-16
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year Redux 2020
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invited us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve decided to try to make this yearly habit. This year...
2020-12-16
10 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year Redux 2020
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invited us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve decided to try to make this yearly habit. This year...
2020-12-16
19 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year Redux 2020
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invited us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve decided to try to make this yearly habit. This year...
2020-12-16
13 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year Redux 2020
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invited us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve decided to try to make this yearly habit. This year...
2020-12-16
14 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year Redux 2020
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invited us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve decided to try to make this yearly habit. This year...
2020-12-16
16 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...
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