SQLCMD to export data in txt file
SQLCMD is one of many methods to export your database data to some text file
2016-10-12 (first published: 2016-09-27)
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Scripts
Shrink Tlog Files
DBA many a times need to shrink the log files if that grows very large. Though I am not recommending to do it daily or often but if space is an issue and you want to release space to OS, you may use the script.
2016-10-11 (first published: 2016-09-22)
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Change datetime
If you have any requirement to extract next 100 sequential date from a present date, you can use the below script. You can change the @datetimeformat value and the output will appear in the same format.
2016-10-10 (first published: 2016-09-26)
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2016-10-07 (first published: 2016-09-20)
1,581 reads
Enable Email Notification to all SQL Jobs
If you have a requirement to enable email notification to all the SQL Jobs, then you may use my script.
2016-10-06 (first published: 2016-09-20)
1,092 reads
Handling with currently running and blocking sessions
Checks currently running sessions and blocking queries with session information
2016-10-05 (first published: 2016-09-16)
820 reads
2016-10-04 (first published: 2016-09-19)
494 reads
Create EndPoint
Server principal 'xx\yy' has granted one or more permission(s). Revoke the permission(s) before dropping the server principal. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15173). If you are gett
2016-10-03 (first published: 2016-09-16)
3,188 reads
Work time calculation
One way to calculate how many minutes a person has worked considering holidays and shifts, being given starting and ending date / time
2016-09-29 (first published: 2016-09-08)
623 reads
Simple Object and String Search within Objects
This Simple script will help to do a Server wide search for an object name or usage of a String in Object Code like Function, Procedure, Views
2016-09-26 (first published: 2016-08-25)
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
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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