2013-06-25 (first published: 2013-06-03)
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Scripts
Locate a column across databases
This utility will locate a column across a subset or all databases across a server. Can be configured to run across versions, and can search tables, views or both.
2013-06-24 (first published: 2013-05-31)
1,286 reads
Reindexing for fragmented indexes
Script will give you the list of fragemented indexes.
(For SQL 2005-2008)
2013-06-21 (first published: 2013-05-31)
1,954 reads
Restore Script Generator
Create restore script from a SQL Backup file. A must have for your DBA Tool Belt.
2013-06-18 (first published: 2013-05-30)
2,329 reads
Re-Trust Untrusted Foreign Keys and Constraints
This script will attempt to re-trust untrusted foreign keys and will report counts of successes and failures.
2013-06-17 (first published: 2013-05-30)
1,184 reads
How Long Backups Will Take
When you are running a backup or a restore, this script gives you an estimate of completion time.
2013-06-14 (first published: 2013-05-30)
1,639 reads
2013-06-13 (first published: 2013-05-30)
3,155 reads
Insert Commas Into Number String
Function to take a number as a string and return it with commas separating thousands, millions, etc.
2013-06-07 (first published: 2009-03-31)
2,454 reads
2013-06-06 (first published: 2009-03-16)
2,664 reads
What got restored from where, by who and when
Ever wondered what got restored, who did the restore and where the backup came from that did the restore?
2013-06-04 (first published: 2012-08-23)
2,040 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
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