Last Saturday, September 23, was the first day of Fall. Regardless of how much has happened and changed over the last three and a half years, time keeps marching forward. And yet, there's exciting familiarity every time I see November approaching because I know something special is about to happen for those of us in […]
2023-09-30
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We have a guest editorial today from Mala Mahadevan on the changing data community.
2023-07-03
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Take a moment and submit to be on the WIT panel at the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle this November. We would like to see more women taking part in this.
2023-06-23
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This is a survey from us at dataplatformwit.com to understand why /how you, as a woman technologist are engaging with community. We ask that women in the data community please fill this out.
2023-04-12
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A week ago I was in Pasadena attending the SCaLE 20x conference, a gathering of many different open-source communities discussing the technologies and platforms that draw them together. I was fortunate enough to hear some excellent presentations on PostgreSQL and give two talks as well. After the first round of talks on Friday morning a […]
2023-03-18
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Helping others has been good for Steve's career and he encourages you to do it as well.
2022-09-16
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Steve is asking for others to contribute to the sqlmemorial site for our #sqlfamily.
2021-08-06
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We had unfortunately lost quite a few members of our SQL Family. We have a new way to remember them.
2021-01-27
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2021-01-02
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An organization, or an event, is more than just the name and structure. It's mostly the people.
2020-11-21
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By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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