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Formatting Dates

There are many ways to format dates, and rather that reinvent the wheel each time I've found it helpful to have a user defined function always available. As a function it of courses processes on each row, and to enable the most flexibility the formatting style is passed simply as a parameter. Year month and […]

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2005-08-31 (first published: )

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Drop all Databases (+the option to exclude one)

I made this Query because we fix databases localy on a workstation (we have no sql server) but when backup up the server they need to be deleted localy that could sometimes take a while.U can run this Query from the QA or ad it as a Job it's possible to run it from an […]

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2005-08-26 (first published: )

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Enterprise Manager Single Diagram Copy Script

This procedure will COPY an Enterprise Manager SINGLE DIAGRAM object between databases on a given SQL Server.This procedure takes in a source DB name, a Dest DB name, and the Diagram name.(Exec diagram_copy 'SOURCE_DB', 'DEST_DB', 'DIAGRAM NAME')This procedure DOES NOT have to be placed in either of the databases, you may run it from a […]

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2005-08-25 (first published: )

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Pad String

Pads a string on either with either leading or trailing characters. You specify the direction, the tolal string length and the character to pad with.Error conditions return null

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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        Sally
I 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);

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