2016-09-23 (first published: 2016-08-30)
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Scripts
2016-09-20 (first published: 2016-08-17)
1,045 reads
Querying deadlock graph from SQL Extended Events
Sample script to read deadlock graph XML from default system health XEvent.
2016-09-16 (first published: 2014-10-16)
4,699 reads
Checking All Date Columns in a Table(s)
Find minimum and maximum values for all date columns in a table or range of tables, using a mask.
2016-09-15 (first published: 2014-10-27)
3,133 reads
Split string using multiple delimiters - version 2
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/split+string/117123/
The above script will split upto 256 char length only. This new version will split upto N length.
2016-09-14 (first published: 2014-10-30)
1,883 reads
Calculate distance between 2 coordinates/latlong
This function is used to get the distance between 2 coordinates/latlong in the different formats
2016-09-13 (first published: 2014-10-31)
1,727 reads
Read all trace file data and print the action performed
If you want to read trace file records from default trace location and want to print to see what are all the activities happened on SQL Server, the query will be helpful for you.
2016-09-12 (first published: 2014-11-12)
2,369 reads
Convert integers/numbers into binary format - viceversa
This functions are used to convert integers/numbers into binary format and viceversa.
2016-09-09 (first published: 2014-11-18)
1,907 reads
Date-based table purge
This procedure takes in charge the clean-up for a given table based on a date field
given as parameter and a retention expressed as a number of days.
2016-09-08 (first published: 2014-11-19)
1,541 reads
2016-09-06 (first published: 2014-11-20)
1,872 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