View connection and Locking Information
This script combines sp_who2 and sp_lock to get meaning full info that includes host Ip address
2010-05-17 (first published: 2009-06-23)
2,537 reads
Scripts
Change Monitor in SQL Server 2005
Track object definition or table schema changes in any database. Batteries required: you need to create a few things to make it run.
2010-05-14 (first published: 2009-06-24)
1,773 reads
2010-05-13 (first published: 2009-07-01)
3,896 reads
2010-05-12 (first published: 2009-07-09)
2,972 reads
Restore Database from network location
When using GUI tools, it seems the DB cannot be restored from a network path. This is actually possible via the script.
2010-05-11 (first published: 2009-07-11)
3,154 reads
The Complete SQL Server 2005 Permissions Report
The script provides complete and comprehensive permission reports, on all SQL Server security hierarchy levels, for all Logins. Reports on particular Logins and databases can be customized.
2010-05-10 (first published: 2009-07-16)
7,967 reads
2010-05-07 (first published: 2009-07-31)
3,355 reads
Poor Man's Table Difference
Given a tablename and other parameters, this procedure will return a table made of foreign keys and a checksum for each
2010-05-06 (first published: 2010-05-02)
2,033 reads
Convert seconds to a timestring
This script converts a number of seconds (integer) to a time string, format 'hh:mm:ss'
2010-05-05 (first published: 2010-04-28)
1,475 reads
2010-05-03 (first published: 2010-04-23)
2,012 reads
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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