Inspector V1.3 now available
Inspector V1.3 is now available on GitHub.
We have updated the sample report for you to play with which includes the...
2019-01-15
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Happy New Year, Here are our Most Popular Posts of 2018
Firstly, all of us at SQL Undercover would like to wish you a very Happy New Year and all the...
2018-12-31
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Quickly Compare Data in Two Tables Using CHECKSUM and CHECKSUM_AGG
There are times when we need to compare two tables and figure out if the data matches. I often see...
2018-12-31 (first published: 2018-12-18)
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Managing Logins and Users Across An Availability Group
What’s the deal with logins and availability groups?
I’m sure that we all, when creating a login that accesses a database...
2018-12-26 (first published: 2018-12-05)
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A curious case of case when and Null values
For some reason I have always written my Case statements using the following logic:
SELECT
CASE
WHEN @Priority = 1 THEN 'Very High'
WHEN @Priority...
2018-12-12 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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High CPU and Query Store, A Story of Spinlock Heartache
This is going to be a quick look at an issue that we recently encountered, I’m not going to go...
2018-12-04 (first published: 2018-11-20)
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T-SQL Tuesday – Non-SQL Server Technologies
So, this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is to think about a non-SQL Server technology that we want to learn.
For me,...
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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Signing Stored Procedures That Access Multiple Databases
A while back I wrote a post, Digitally Signing a Stored Procedure To Allow It To Run With Elevated Permissions
Recently Manish...
2018-11-08 (first published: 2018-10-30)
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Identifying delays between SQL calls using SQL profiler
One of the common goto methods for query specific slowness which can be replicated via an application can be to...
2018-11-05 (first published: 2018-10-24)
2,203 reads
A Play Around With Table Variable Deferred Compilation in SQL 2019
Table variables, they’re nasty, dirty little things that perform about as well as a Robin Reliant in a crosswind, right? ...
2018-10-25 (first published: 2018-10-16)
2,075 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item This Week's AI Trust Problem...
Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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