SQL Data Generator –Specific Domains for a Column
I was mocking up some test data and wanted to limit my list of values to specific items. In this...
2016-03-25 (first published: 2016-03-21)
1,562 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – March 21, 2016
Monday, Monday, Monday… let’s start with a wrap-up of last week’s blog and twitter activity. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2016-03-21
443 reads
Cross Database Query in Azure SQL Database
You can’t query across databases in Azure SQL Database… or can you?
Let’s check. I’ve created two new databases on an...
2016-03-28 (first published: 2016-03-21)
3,142 reads
TOP 1 killed my performance; Rob Farley helped me resurrect it.
tl;dr; There is no short version of this. It’s LONG. It’s interesting but you might want to skip it if...
2016-03-25 (first published: 2016-03-21)
4,633 reads
Database Growth Trends – Idera Diagnostic Manager
How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on disk? Am I safe with a 100 GB database...
2016-03-21
47 reads
Database Growth Trends – Idera Diagnostic Manager
How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on...
2016-03-21
673 reads
Columnstore Indexes – part 81 (“Adding Columnstore Index to InMemory Tables”)
Continuation from the previous 80 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Microsoft is doing an amazing job with...
2016-03-21
516 reads
Weekly Round-up 21st March 2016
Here are some of the more interesting links that I have found this week
SQL Server
SQL Server 2016 RC1 has...
2016-03-21
451 reads
Columnstore Indexes – part 80 (“Local Aggregation”)
Continuation from the previous 79 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Given the number under-the-hood performance & manageability improvements...
2016-03-21
553 reads
A journey to a movie recommender in U-SQL
I haven’t gotten to involved in the whole “Big Data” movement to much, I’ve kept an arms length watch and...
2016-03-23 (first published: 2016-03-20)
1,889 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