Database Deployments in Uncontrolled Environments
The ideal is to make a change and see that change deployed to production, in a perfect world we would be told to work on something, write the code...
2016-09-20
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North Texas SQL Server User Group – September 2016 Follow
Thanks for attending my presentation on window functions in TSQL during the September 15, 2016. I hope you learned something you...
2016-09-19
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Be a good administrator
Administering SQL ServerBelow are the topics every Administrator has to keep up with.Backup / Restore:Understand the backup / restore options SQL Server...
2016-09-19
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Quick Script – Finding Most Recent Backup
Recently I have had to restore a number of databases into our training environment. Looking up each backup individually would...
2016-09-27 (first published: 2016-09-19)
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Data Governance Policy
What is a Data Governance Policy?
Data governance policy is concerned with how an organization collects, stores, accesses and maintains its...
2016-09-19
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Be a good administrator
Below are the topics every Administrator has to keep up with. Backup / Restore: Understand the backup / restore options SQL Server provides for you. Implement those on your...
2016-09-19
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Be a good administrator
Below are the topics every Administrator has to keep up with. Backup / Restore: Understand the backup / restore options SQL Server provides for you. Implement those on your...
2016-09-19
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Monday Morning SQL Break – September 19, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up. It’s been a few weeks since the last recap, apparently vacation a month and a half ago slowed...
2016-09-19
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Monday Morning SQL Break – September 19, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up. It’s been a few weeks since the last recap,...
2016-09-19
953 reads
Be a good administrator
Below are the topics every Administrator has to keep up with.
Backup / Restore:
Understand the backup / restore options SQL Server provides for...
2016-09-19
191 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