number of rows and columns of an instance
Get the number of rows, columns, and space used by all tables in all databases
2018-10-03 (first published: 2018-09-20)
524 reads
Scripts
Data Collections restart and clear cache files
Script to stop the default Data Collection sets, clear the cache files and then restart collection sets.
2018-10-02 (first published: 2018-09-25)
1,470 reads
Conditionally Order By Different Column
Order records based on a different column depending on which absolute value is greater.
2018-10-01 (first published: 2018-09-26)
660 reads
2018-09-26
501 reads
dba_CopyLogins
A copy of the late Robert Davis' dba_copylogins stored procedure with a bug fix. The SP copies logins, roles, and permissions between servers.
2018-09-24 (first published: 2018-08-28)
1,804 reads
2018-09-21 (first published: 2018-06-01)
2,129 reads
2018-09-20 (first published: 2018-08-28)
918 reads
T-SQL to compress (shorten) IPv6 address
Didn't find anything, so hope this will help someone with similar need.
Note I did a similar set-based version, and unless the input is more towards non-zeros in all eight 2-byte fields, the set-based performs not as well
2018-09-19 (first published: 2018-09-12)
609 reads
2018-09-04 (first published: 2018-08-23)
335 reads
FK_Add_Drop_Constraints_AllDBs
This scripts helps to generate ADD / DROP Constraints against single Database.
2018-09-03 (first published: 2018-08-14)
266 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
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The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
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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