2009-02-16 (first published: 2009-02-03)
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Scripts
sp_wcProject
A stored procedure which provides wildcard column selections plus some additional bells and whistles
2009-02-03 (first published: 2009-01-28)
903 reads
Two scripts to spell out numbers in words
These SQL functions will allow you to convert decimal numbers to words
2009-02-02 (first published: 2009-01-22)
2,030 reads
Growth remaining for SQL Server 2005 databases
This script is little bit similar to the one posted for SQL Server 2000 that finds how much space you have left.
2009-01-30 (first published: 2009-01-19)
974 reads
2009-01-23 (first published: 2009-01-14)
2,040 reads
View - Table Usage (Recursive)
Written to explore the table dependencies of a view, especially when the view queries other views.
2009-01-22 (first published: 2009-01-11)
1,282 reads
2009-01-21 (first published: 2009-01-08)
952 reads
Loop Through every table in a DB
This Script has been build to list all the tables in a database without using a cursor.
2009-01-20 (first published: 2009-01-05)
2,108 reads
Truncate Referenced Table
Often during the development phase one is required to truncate a table. often the task of removing foreign key references is necessary to truncate. this sp takes the pain out of it.
2009-01-19 (first published: 2009-01-05)
1,323 reads
2009-01-16 (first published: 2009-01-03)
2,671 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