Week Starts On Saturday?
A function that emulates SET DATEFIRST 6 within a function for finding relevant date information.
2012-02-29 (first published: 2012-02-15)
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Scripts
Currently Running Process - 2005
This script will show the currently running queries in the system. It will give the entire script which is involved in the background.
2012-02-28 (first published: 2012-02-01)
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TSQL that lists all numbers from 1..100
This query shows how to write a T-SQL statement that lists all numbers between 1 and 100 ordered, without use of any DATABASE table with only ONE select statement.
2012-02-20 (first published: 2011-12-31)
2,306 reads
PowerShell SCript to export almost everything from a list of servers
Create a c:\servers.txt list of servers. No spaces or it wont work. Then copy the code into a ps1 file and edit the directroyfilename to show where you want the files to end up.
2012-02-17 (first published: 2012-01-23)
1,890 reads
Find storage including mount points Sql and windows utility
Find drive, freespace, usedspace and percent free for all drives and mounted volumes.
2012-02-16 (first published: 2011-12-15)
840 reads
Integer left and right shift
3 functions that implement the left (<<), right (>>) and unsigned right (>>>) shift operators, commonly found in C-style languages.
2012-02-15 (first published: 2011-12-30)
8,148 reads
2012-02-13 (first published: 2011-12-30)
1,725 reads
Data Driven Subscription - SQL Server Standard Edition
A simple example of using T-SQL and the Boomerang framework to create a data driven subscription.
2012-02-08 (first published: 2012-01-04)
1,957 reads
2012-02-07 (first published: 2011-12-15)
1,075 reads
2012-02-06 (first published: 2011-12-23)
1,576 reads
Blogs
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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