Quick SQL Server Configuration Summary Report
This script will detect and display a quick summary of your SQL Server installation.
2016-08-03 (first published: 2015-01-29)
9,591 reads
Scripts
Calendar Table Function
This iTVF will produce a calendar table that can be used for complex date manipulation; quickly and effeciently
2016-08-02 (first published: 2014-12-29)
8,615 reads
Show running queries
Identify the current statement and its line number within a running batch. Includes a link to the execution plan, if available.
2016-08-01 (first published: 2015-03-03)
5,460 reads
Report overlapping jobs
This script reports jobs which are running when another job is also running. This could be a reason for performance degradations.
2016-07-29 (first published: 2014-06-21)
2,694 reads
Yet another way to defrag indexes
A script we use in our company, that rebuilds online=on by default, but takes care of special exceptions.
2016-07-28 (first published: 2014-06-06)
2,414 reads
Dynamic Table Name on Select Into
Based upon todays date as suffix and chosen string as prefix, select data from predefined table into dynamically named new table. Script is properly error handled with most common errors
2016-07-27 (first published: 2015-05-04)
2,621 reads
2016-07-26 (first published: 2014-11-20)
2,272 reads
Alert for low identities available
This script alert when a table on a DB has a low number of identities available
2016-07-25 (first published: 2016-07-16)
554 reads
Random Lottery Number Generator
This script will generate 5 lottery numbers plus one mega and you can set how many tickets and the range for the numbers for the different types of lotteries.
2016-07-22 (first published: 2016-07-13)
2,100 reads
Missing Index Script with Create Statement
standard missing index script but has a create statement to copy and past
2016-07-21 (first published: 2016-07-07)
2,160 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
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The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
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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