Re-blog – March 16 – March 22
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2012-03-23
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StrateSQL
March #Meme15 Round-up – Facebook
Are you ready for the round-up of last week’s #meme15 Facebook question?
In total, there were eight participants in this month’s...
2012-03-22
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Re-blog – March 9 – March 15
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2012-03-16
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March #Meme15 – Facebook
It’s the early morning of the 16th, and time to write my #meme15 post. Remember, these are due on or...
2012-03-16
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Webcast: What Are You Waiting For?
What was the number one question from today’s webcast on wait statistics? Where can the slides and sample code be...
2012-03-15
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Happy #Pi Day
Here’s wishing you a Happy Pi Day…
If my picture isn’t good enough, here’s a better representation of pi.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
Related posts:Happy Pi...
2012-03-14
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March #Meme15 Assignment
This month, the #meme15 post will fall on March 15th, often referred to as the Ides of March. This date...
2012-03-11
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Frozen for the Special Olympics
Last weekend, I braved to last hurrah of our Minnesota winter and jumped into Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. It was...
2012-03-11
772 reads
Re-blog – March 2 – March 8
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2012-03-09
618 reads
March 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Are your SQL Servers healthy? If the things went south today today, would you be able to say you can...
2012-03-08
1,774 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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