Default database file sizes
It’s Chris Yates (b/t) birthday! (I think he just tured 19.) And in honor of his birthday we are writing...
2016-07-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #80–Chris Yates’ Birthday
It’s the 80th version of T-SQL Tuesday. You can see all the parties from the past on my page, but...
2016-07-12
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Target Recovery Interval and Indirect Checkpoint
Introduction The process that writes the dirty pages from the system memory (RAM) to the disk is called the checkpoint process. Dirty pages consist of the data and log...
2016-07-12
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Target Recovery Interval and Indirect Checkpoint
Introduction The process that writes the dirty pages from the system memory (RAM) to the disk is called the checkpoint process. Dirty pages consist of the data and log...
2016-07-12
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Target Recovery Interval and Indirect Checkpoint
Introduction
The process that writes the dirty pages from the system memory (RAM) to the disk is called the checkpoint process....
2016-07-12
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Target Recovery Interval and Indirect Checkpoint
IntroductionThe process that writes the dirty pages from the system memory (RAM) to the disk is called the checkpoint process....
2016-07-12
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Are you a new SQL Server DBA? Live Blog @LearningTree
This week I’m teaching Learning Tree’s course 2108 SQL Server Database Administration course in LEC in London. Following on from...
2016-07-12
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Training To-Do List for New DBA
Are you an entry-level DBA, or looking to make the career switch? Feel like you are looking up from the...
2016-07-18 (first published: 2016-07-12)
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Improvements with SSMS 2016
The staple of every SQL Server developer's world, SSMS has been impossible to usurp for the majority of us. However,...
2016-07-19 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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Monday Morning SQL Break – July 11, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. I spent the weekend with family...
2016-07-11
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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