SQL Server 2005 Index Maintenance
Index maintenance procedure using rebuild or reorganized based on fragementation level.
2011-10-26 (first published: 2008-03-28)
3,524 reads
Scripts
Generate HTML output for given SQL Query
Many times we need to generate html query for a given SQL query for that we need to use ASP, Java. Now you can use this SP to generate HTML.
2011-10-25 (first published: 2007-10-01)
4,572 reads
Reverse-Engineer Database Permissions (2005 up)
This script reverse engineers SQL statements to recreate database permissions.
2011-10-24 (first published: 2011-10-07)
16,333 reads
Search for a String in all Stored Procedures and beyond?
Search for String Occurence with this script in your stored procedures.
2011-10-20 (first published: 2008-06-08)
5,427 reads
UP_COMPACTA_COPIA
I have several problems with my corporate network and therefore need to do all my backups locally, and to make matters worse, still use SQL Server 2005.
2011-10-17 (first published: 2011-09-30)
447 reads
2011-10-14 (first published: 2011-08-24)
534 reads
Detailed Table Data
Gets Detail table information such as partition information, compression, and partition range.
2011-10-13 (first published: 2011-09-30)
1,250 reads
2011-10-12 (first published: 2011-08-31)
962 reads
Next grow for all databases per disk
This script lets you to know how much disk space will be left after the next database grow taking in account the free space left in the database.
2011-10-11 (first published: 2011-09-13)
1,046 reads
2011-10-10 (first published: 2011-08-24)
841 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
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