2012-05-22 (first published: 2012-05-01)
841 reads
Scripts
Find a text string in any column in a database
Find a string in any "string" (char, varchar, nchar etc) column in the database.
2012-05-18 (first published: 2007-12-19)
5,781 reads
Payment due date function
Calculates the nth due date for any given date, while accounting for weekends.
2012-05-16 (first published: 2007-10-11)
3,817 reads
Effectively mapping primary key – foreign key relations
This script maps the primary key - foreign key relations regardless if the column names are the same or not.
2012-05-15 (first published: 2007-11-07)
2,995 reads
sa_help_rev.erse.sa.login
A script to generate a recovery script for setting your sa account back to the password it is using at the time of running this script.
2012-05-14 (first published: 2012-04-09)
1,009 reads
sp_Find2
Searches database for up to 4 keywords. It will search through SPs, UDFs, Triggers, SSIS packages, jobs, table names, and column names.
2012-05-10 (first published: 2012-04-18)
2,222 reads
2012-05-09 (first published: 2012-04-19)
1,375 reads
Identify Bad Characters in a Table Column
An interesting recursive CTE to list out the non-alphanumeric characters in a column of a table.
2012-05-08 (first published: 2012-04-12)
3,030 reads
2012-04-30 (first published: 2012-04-04)
692 reads
Log Shipping - How you can convert the secondary database into primar
This topic explains the log shipping if the primary database is suspected or corrupted and how you can convert the secondary database into primary database.
2012-04-27 (first published: 2012-03-31)
1,021 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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