SQL 2005 Disaster Recovery Scripts: To Setup and Remove Mirroring
Two sets of scripts to help setup mirroring or remove mirroring - handy during disaster recovery exercise
2010-06-07 (first published: 2009-03-17)
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Scripts
Job History with Timeline
Similar to many other Job History scripts, but unique in that it has a timeline.
2010-06-01 (first published: 2009-04-03)
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SQL 2008 MERGE using Dynamic SQL over a Linked Server
Stored Procedure to build a MERGE statement in SQL 2008 using dynamic SQL.
2010-05-31 (first published: 2009-04-06)
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usp_PartitionDatabase
Given some input parameters, it generates the filegroups, files, partition function and partition scheme sql statements.
2010-05-28 (first published: 2009-04-17)
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Disk Space Report
This scripts helps to power you with the disk space monitoring for the Mount points.
Hope this helps
2010-05-27 (first published: 2009-04-17)
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Easily delete database objects
The stored procedure sp_DropDatabaseObject is designed to easily drop a variety of database objects with extensive feedback to the user
2010-05-26 (first published: 2009-04-21)
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The Ultimate Running Requests Reporter
Reports all running requests along with the request's identifying information (SPID, login etc), current resource consumption, query batch text, statement text, and XML query plan.
2010-05-24 (first published: 2009-05-01)
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Stored Procedure to maintain RSExecutionLog
An alternative to the SSIS approach to maintaining an RSExecutionLog database for Reporting Services supplied by Microsoft
2010-05-21 (first published: 2009-05-07)
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Dynamically script Create Database For Attach For All Databases
Modified version of a script that can be found at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Contributions/InstallEditor
2010-05-20 (first published: 2009-05-07)
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Table Generator for defined tables
This script will generate a format friendly ddl statement for a predefined table in sql server.
2010-05-19 (first published: 2009-06-03)
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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