Remove files from a filegroup
You have a database with one or more filegroups, and one or more of those filegroups has multiple files. You’ve...
2016-05-02
1,666 reads
SQL 2016 - The Time Has Come!
Microsoft dropped it on us this morning:
Get ready, SQL Server 2016 coming on June 1st
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I read the article and was...
2016-05-02
937 reads
Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!
SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide upgrade of SQL Server. Are you thinking of upgrading...
2016-05-01
10 reads
Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!
SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide...
2016-05-01
3,092 reads
SQL Server 2005 Modernization Checklist
As Bala Narasimhan from PernixData and I discussed in a webinar last week, SQL Server 2005 hit end of it’s...
2016-05-01
554 reads
Power BI Box and Whisker visualization vs. Box Plot chart in SSRS
[2016-Apr-30] I don't work with box plot charts very often, however when I do then it becomes a very interesting experience. First,...
2016-04-30
4,364 reads
3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Entity Framework
Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft's object-relational-mapping tool (ORM) that allows programmers to easily map database objects to C# object models. What attracts developers to Entity Framework is the automatic...
2016-04-30
18 reads
Big Data architectures
Over the last few years I have been involved in reviewing the architectures of various companies that are building or have...
2016-05-12 (first published: 2016-04-29)
3,133 reads
Possible PARAMETER SNIFFING Scenario in SQL
When you undertake some performance improvement task, you think it is frustrating however at the same time you tend to...
2016-05-11 (first published: 2016-04-29)
3,704 reads
A New Look & A New Direction
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you...
2016-04-28
808 reads
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