2011-03-04 (first published: 2011-02-21)
6,159 reads
Scripts
Monitoring Resource Governor Memory Grants
A very useful query that will allow you to monitor the resource governor memory grants along with other useful information.
2011-03-03 (first published: 2011-02-14)
3,206 reads
Search for a text in all databases
This procedure searches for a specified text in all (or one selected) databases in all (or selected) tables.
2011-03-02 (first published: 2008-01-25)
5,110 reads
2011-03-01 (first published: 2011-02-18)
4,054 reads
Columns Explorer - With constraints create / drop scripts (no cursors)
Gets all columns infos, foreign keys (multicolumn fk handled), referenced primary keys, default and check constraints, indexes, Create/Drop scripts for all constraints.
2011-02-28 (first published: 2011-02-18)
1,616 reads
String tokenizing / splitting
We often have need of string splitting in applications. I had need of one in some T-SQL development I am currently doing for a friend.
2011-02-25 (first published: 2011-02-09)
2,053 reads
2011-02-21 (first published: 2011-02-05)
1,964 reads
2011-02-18 (first published: 2011-01-25)
3,084 reads
Financial Month
This Script will return the respective financial month(Starts from April to March) for a calander month Input(Starts from January to April), May use for many Consolidated Financial Reports.
2011-02-16 (first published: 2011-02-05)
1,540 reads
(new) Kill ALL Connections To a SQL Database
Ever puzzled by the database "Currently in Use" error even though you thought all connections had been Killed? That’s because the wrong table SysProcesses was used.
2011-02-15 (first published: 2011-01-26)
3,956 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
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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
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I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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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