Audit All Select Statements
Legislation and regulation sometimes dictates that certain activities must be tracked within a database. On occasion, it will be required...
2016-08-15 (first published: 2016-08-08)
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Top 5 books on Enterprise Architecture
My post the top 3 books for becoming TOGAF certified punlished last week looked at books on preparing for the...
2016-08-08
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Current Running Queries
Following script is perhaps the most executed script in my 10 year Database Administration career. The script has been my...
2016-08-11 (first published: 2016-08-07)
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Create a Date Dimension in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Most data warehouses and data marts require a date dimension or calendar table. Those of us that have been building...
2016-08-11 (first published: 2016-08-06)
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AlwaysON database NOT SYNCHRONIZED and RECOVERY PENDING
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I have recently come across an issue that, one of my alwaysON secondary replica...
2016-08-16 (first published: 2016-08-06)
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BIT9 PathNames
We live in a day and age when security (data, network, server, etc) is seemingly at the forefront of the daily news.
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BIT9 PathNames
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What is the Lambda Architecture?
Lambda architecture is a data-processing architecture designed to handle massive quantities of data (i.e. “Big Data”) by using both batch-processing and...
2016-08-08 (first published: 2016-08-05)
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Visual Studio Live!–Washington DC–Save with me
I’m going to be speaking this fall at Visual Studio Live, Washington D.C. edition on Oct 3-6. This is my...
2016-08-05
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2016-08-05
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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