My Application is Getting SQL Timeout Errors, But What Query is the Problem?
This is something that comes up time and time again. A developer or member of the service desk comes up to me and says “SQL’s timing out, you see...
2021-07-27
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Inspector V2.6 now available
As always the code can be found here in our github repoWe updated our sample report here We forgot to mention V2.5! We added the ability to add Thresholds...
2021-07-23
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When Read Committed Snapshot Goes Bad – Version Store Filling TempDB
We all had those calls, it’s the middle of the night and we get that phone call that a customer is getting error messages due to their tempDB being...
2021-06-30 (first published: 2021-06-18)
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Encryption in SQL Server #1 – Column Level Encryption
For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I’ve started to realise that...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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Generate a Random Number for Each Row in a Query {a better way}
A couple of years ago I wrote a post on how to generate a random number in SQL Server. https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/22/generating-random-numbers-for-each-row-over-a-specified-range-and-other-funky-stuff-you-can-do-with-them/ It’s ok and it works, it’s also a method...
2021-03-31
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T-SQL Tuesday #135 – The Tools That Make My Job Awesome!
Blog posts have been few and far between from SQL Undercover lately but what better to try and get us back in the swing again than with T-SQL Tuesday....
2021-02-09
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SQL Server login – default database and failed logins
This is one of them little options that I see which quite often gets little consideration or gets set to a user database without consideration of what the consequences...
2020-12-09 (first published: 2020-11-30)
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Inspector 2.4 now available
All the changes for this release can be found in the Github Project page Mainly bug fixes this time around , but we have also added new functionality: Improvements...
2020-12-01
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sp_RestoreScript 1.8 Now Released
It looks like there was a bug lurking in sp_RestoreScript that was causing the wrong ALTER DATABASE command to be generated when using @SingleUser and a WITH MOVE parameter....
2020-11-23
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Undercover Academy – SQL Server Backup and Recovery – Module 1: Taking and Restoring a Backup
Welcome along to the first module in our Undercover Academy’s SQL Server Backup and Recovery course. In this module we’re going to look at how to take and restore...
2020-10-07 (first published: 2020-09-30)
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Blogs
Goal Progress for July 2021
By Steve Jones
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress...
Data Modeling at your fingertips
By Rayis Imayev
(2021-July-30) A picture is worth a thousand words, the same way a visual database schema...
How to put a SQL Server Database into Recovery Pending
By John
You might be asking why on earth would you want to get a database...
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How is Throughput optimized HDD (st 1)
Hi Everyone. i am planning to shift my website to AWS I want...
Alternative to LAG(SUM) - Can a Column Reference The Sum of the Values Above It
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to do something that seems pretty simple, but SQL Server...
Transaction log shrink w/ logshipping
Hello everyone, Again with this question. 🙂 I've got a log-shipped database, and I...
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