2010-11-18 (first published: 2009-07-20)
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Scripts
Get SQLServer Name and Uptime SPROC
Stored procedure to provide clean output of system name and uptime since last restart
2010-11-16 (first published: 2010-11-08)
1,269 reads
SQL Server Service Check Utility
Script will display current status of SQL server services and even show if not installed. Works on SQL 2005,2008 2008R2. Both 32 and 64 bit servers.
2010-11-15 (first published: 2010-11-09)
3,624 reads
Automate Range Right Partition Management with Powershell (Part II)
In the last script, we covered removing the trailing partition in a Range Right, date valued partition. This script adds a new (empty) partition to the partition scheme.
2010-11-12 (first published: 2009-12-17)
1,089 reads
Automate Range Right Partition Management with PowerShell
This script automatically splits a partitioned table, merges the partition function and then drops the associated file group for the partition.
2010-11-11 (first published: 2009-12-17)
2,243 reads
Extracting Logins From SQL Server
This script will help you transfer logins between one instance of SQL and another.
2010-11-08 (first published: 2010-01-07)
4,636 reads
How long has passed since SQL Server service started?
Days, hours and minutes since SQL Server service was started
2010-11-05 (first published: 2010-01-15)
2,514 reads
Index Seeks, Scans, and Lookups
This script may help identify tables impacted by frequently-occurring scans.
2010-11-02 (first published: 2010-02-04)
3,910 reads
Change String to Title Case(Initcap)
This is simple script to change string to title case. It will take string in any case and convert it to initcap.
2010-10-26 (first published: 2010-10-19)
1,547 reads
Data Dictionary using sys.objects - SQL 2008
Create a data dictionary with two stored procedures using sys objects to view via SSRS (or other reporting tool) report
2010-10-21 (first published: 2010-10-16)
2,278 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