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Save $200 by registering for a PASS Summit 2024 3-day ticket before July 16

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PASS Data Community Summit 2024 is taking place in Seattle from November 4-8. With over 150 sessions and over 140 different speakers, this year's event promises something for everyone, with a broad variety of topics covered by a range of data industry experts.

If you're looking to connect, share and learn with the data community this year, make sure you register for PASS Summit before the next price bump and save $200 on a 3-day ticket. Beat the price bump by registering for your ticket before July 15, 23:59 PM PT.

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2024-07-12

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General program for PASS Summit 2024 now available

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Did you know that the general program for PASS Data Community Summit 2024 (November 4-8) was recently unveiled? This year's lineup includes over 150 different sessions being delivered by over 140 speakers!

This year's program also includes 16 incredible full day pre-cons, taking place on November 4 and 5, plus 6 different learning pathways to choose from. Join PASS Summit on-site for a whole week of connecting, sharing and learning with industry experts. Register before July 16 to secure a 3-day ticket at the early bird rate.

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2024-07-08

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Building Bonds with Entertainment

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Over the years I've had the chance to work in a lot of companies, and I've seen a lot of different team-building attempts take place. In restaurants, these were often nights out with too many adult beverages. At a power station, we had some large outdoor BBQs, where again, sometimes there were too many adult […]

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2023-10-04

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Community at PASS Summit

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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 […]

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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        Sally
I 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);

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