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)
2,258 reads
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)
2,361 reads
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)
2,552 reads
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)
2,201 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
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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