To check the Backup Status for an SQL Instance
This Script will fetch database backup information from msdb and give the idea about full, diffrential and log backup.
2014-01-10 (first published: 2014-01-04)
1,424 reads
Scripts
Total Space Used for all databases per disk
Tells you how much the databases are using the space on disk taking in account the free space at the end of the database.
2014-01-08 (first published: 2012-05-04)
4,007 reads
Generate MERGE statements with Table data
A stored procedure that produces a MERGE statement for a given table containing a VALUES clause for all rows, useful for migrating static data between environments.
2014-01-07 (first published: 2012-03-14)
8,049 reads
View Active Session SQL
This script can be used to view current SQL statements being executed for all or any one SPID.
2014-01-06 (first published: 2012-01-26)
4,331 reads
Advanced Display Table and Column Info
A view that presents Schema, Table, Fields and Data Types, Defaults and First 10 triggers for the table.
2014-01-03 (first published: 2013-12-10)
1,763 reads
List all Usernames, Roles for all the databases.
Generates a list of ALL Users and their database Roles for all Databases (Or for a specific user).
2013-12-30 (first published: 2008-07-24)
45,377 reads
Get all user def table info
Get space for all user defined table information like size and row counts.
2013-12-27 (first published: 2007-08-29)
7,735 reads
Table Information View -- No Cursors!
Row counts and storage space information for all tables in the database. (SQL Server 2005).
2013-12-26 (first published: 2008-03-16)
17,070 reads
Generate C# class code for table
For any supplied table, my proc, usp_TableToClass, generates class code in C#, including fields, properties, getters and setters.
2013-12-24 (first published: 2007-11-06)
12,578 reads
2013-12-19 (first published: 2007-08-27)
20,917 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