2019-12-30
615 reads
Logins
Audit Users logging in using "sa" or service accounts
Security is probably one of a production DBA's most important tasks and if developers use application or service accounts to run queries in your production environment you need to identify then and prohibit it. I notice some unwanted activity after staring a new job and decided to create a script that notifies me via email when […]
2019-07-04 (first published: 2019-06-26)
2,294 reads
2019-04-16
757 reads
Login restriction from selected applications and users
It will help to DBA for restrict the SQL Users login from selected applications programs and track there logins with Host name and other details
2018-04-11 (first published: 2018-03-29)
771 reads
Generate Login Script(2008R2 And Older)
Generate Script from Logins of Sql Server to recreate in another instance
2015-08-25 (first published: 2015-08-10)
1,764 reads
Prevent and Log Certain SQL Server Login Attempts
Aaron Bertrand presents a more elegant to prevent developers from attempting to log into production databases using application logins (and to log any such attempts).
2015-04-14
7,318 reads
2014-05-14
2,248 reads
2014-03-28
1,895 reads
2014-03-26
2,105 reads
Script Login Differences
Compare the logins and users on two instances and generate a TSQL script to make them the same.
2015-02-26 (first published: 2013-11-15)
2,893 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
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I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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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