Last month Name and Year in a SSRS expression
Show the last month and year in a expression, based on a parameter called asofdate. Must format Date Month Year
2011-11-08 (first published: 2011-10-11)
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Scripts
Extract values from a string using a delimiter
There are many occasions in programs where you need to manipulate strings of characters that are delimited by a particular character, such as a comma, or a space. This function enables you to extract a substring from the string at a specified occurence of the delimter. declare @Data varchar(255) set @Data = 'A,B,C,D,E' print dbo.field(@data,',',2,2) […]
2011-11-07 (first published: 2007-08-03)
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Wait Time - Query\Client
Script helps to get the client and queries that generate longer waiting time.
2011-11-07 (first published: 2011-10-14)
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Compare 2 datasets and output delta in one TSQL statement
There are many ways 2 compare datasets to find differences, this is one of them.
2011-11-04 (first published: 2011-10-21)
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Check if Constraint is enabled or disabled
This is a script to find all constraints and check if they are enabled or disabled.
2011-11-03 (first published: 2011-10-12)
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2011-11-02 (first published: 2011-10-21)
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2011-11-01 (first published: 2011-10-18)
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2011-10-31 (first published: 2011-10-19)
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Proc to Rename a file
A simple way to rename a file from within a T-SQL Script, primarily designed to add a date-time stamp. Works in 2000 and 2005.
2011-10-28 (first published: 2008-05-13)
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Find and Replace a String in the Whole Database
Find and Replace a string in all string fields (char, varchar, etc) of all tables in the database.
2011-10-27 (first published: 2008-02-08)
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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