Same Query, Different Servers, Different Performance. Now What?
Based on the number of times I see this question on forums, it must be occurring all the time. You...
2016-07-19 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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Tips to Fix Database Consistency Errors – Reported By DBCC CHECKDB
Overview
While working on SQL Server, sometimes users get stuck in annoying situations when database become inaccessible. After executing DBCC CHECKDB...
2016-07-11
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ETL Modularity
Imagine for a moment that you’ve built a software thing. In fact, we’ll call it Thing. You put a lot...
2016-07-18 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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Basic Statistics with SQL – Introduction
I was a student of statistics in school and college. I didn’t get to use much of anything I learned...
2016-07-10
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SQL Server – String_Escape function in SQL Server 2016
Hi friends, in SQL server 2016 another string function that introduced is String_Escape. This function can escape special characters within...
2016-07-10
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Join me for a free SQL Performance webcast on July 14th!
With less than we week away, I can say that I’m really excited to reach more people in the community...
2016-07-08
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Dallas, TX Fallen Officers Relief Fund
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2016-07-08
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Converged virtual architectures and SQL Server licensing
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2016-07-08
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Influence Skills: Live from @LearningTree London Day 4
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2016-07-08
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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Certifications Announced
Hi friends, Microsoft has announced the release of three new SQL 2016 certifications, based on the different working database professional’s...
2016-07-08
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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