2011-09-09 (first published: 2007-11-19)
8,947 reads
Scripts
Script a Database Role
Script one or all roles in a database. Includes users, obect permissions and column permissions.
2011-09-08 (first published: 2008-01-08)
5,289 reads
Generate Scripts to Compare Tables
Generate the scripts that will allow you to compare tables pass/fail.
2011-09-07 (first published: 2007-12-28)
12,627 reads
2011-09-06 (first published: 2011-08-13)
1,991 reads
2011-09-05 (first published: 2007-01-25)
3,999 reads
Getting Age in Text or Date Difference in text format
This function returns the difference between the date in text format
2011-09-01 (first published: 2011-08-30)
1,064 reads
2011-08-31 (first published: 2011-08-24)
2,581 reads
List all tables without LOB columns
Lists all the tables in a database that do not contain any LOB columns(text, ntext, image, varchar (max), nvarchar (max), varbinary (max) and xml).
Useful when rebuilding indexes online.
2011-08-30 (first published: 2011-08-25)
768 reads
Find gaps in primary keys across multiple databases
Output table of gaps in a primary key across multiple databases on same, remote and/or linked servers.
2011-08-29 (first published: 2011-08-12)
970 reads
2011-08-24 (first published: 2011-08-12)
1,178 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