How do I rename a column?
Everyone makes mistakes right? And sometimes you create an object and decide later that you messed up and need to...
2016-04-18
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Can’t RDP to Azure VM?
I ran into an interesting problem early this month. I was spinning up an Azure VM with SQL Server 2016...
2016-04-18
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Columnstore Indexes – part 82 (“Extended Events in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 81 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Previously, I have blogged about about the...
2016-04-16
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SQL Saturday #492 Follow Up – A Window into Your Data
Thanks for attending my session on window functions in TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and...
2016-04-16
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What's New in SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 3
Microsoft announced SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 3 Evaluations
Benefits of SQL Server 2016 Release candidate 3:
Enhanced in-memory performance provide up...
2016-04-16
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Community work
I have been really busy lately with articles, podcasts and so forth. Lately I have been working on 2 public...
2016-04-16
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Sarpedon Quality Lab presenting SQL Server 2016 In-Memory and Security Features in Arabia at SQL Gulf 3
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(“MARR-hah-bah”, Arabic: Hello)
This year takes me to yet another part of the world:
I have been invited to speak at THE...
2016-04-15
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2016-04-15
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SQL 2016 Temporal Tables By Example
Brief Description
Temporal tables allow automated change tracking of a table directly in to a history table which can be queried...
2016-04-15
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Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server Part 7.2: The Lilliefors Test
By Steve Bolton
…………Since I’m teaching myself as I go in this series of self-tutorials, I often have only a vague...
2016-04-25 (first published: 2016-04-15)
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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