SSIS Trick: Adding Multiple Packages to a Project
A little SSIS trick today. Sometimes you start a new Integration Services project and you want to add some existing...
2016-04-06
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TSQL– Search for Strings in Object Definitions
I have been working nn an environment that had multiple copies of a database on the same SQL server instance....
2016-04-06
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Tools of the trade
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now, nice and simple, just want to list the tools...
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SQLSaturday (Silicon Valley) Detect Worst Performing SQL Queries During Peak Hour
Detecting worst performing queries executed in a particular duration and how many times it got executed and fine tuning them is a single most efficient technique to fix unexpected...
2016-04-05
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SQLSaturday (Silicon Valley) Detect Worst Performing SQL Queries During Peak Hour
Detecting worst performing queries executed in a particular duration and how many times it got executed and fine tuning them...
2016-04-05
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Power BI Embedded is here
The announcement of Power BI Embedded came last week during Microsoft’s Build Conference and now enables software vendors or anyone...
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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...
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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