Are your backup files where they say they are?
I was having a cleanup of some old scripts the other day when I stumbled upon a script I wrote...
2018-08-08 (first published: 2018-07-25)
2,018 reads
A Quick Look At The All New Undercover Catalogue, Preview Release Due Out Soon…
I thought I’d give you all a little preview of our latest offering, the Undercover Catalogue which should be available...
2018-08-06
268 reads
Selecting a Random Row From a Table
A couple of times recently I’ve seen the question asked, ‘How can I select a single row at random from...
2018-07-26 (first published: 2018-07-20)
726 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #104 – My Undercover Toolbox favourites
This months T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Bert Wagner , you can find the invitation for this months topic here.
Bert...
2018-07-18 (first published: 2018-07-10)
2,710 reads
Backup Your On Premise SQL Server Directly to an AWS S3 Bucket
I’ve been having a little play around with AWS recently and was looking at S3 (AWS’ cloud storage) when I...
2018-06-18
913 reads
Resend an email sent from SQL Server using TSQL
Sometimes emails from SQL Server go missing, especially when you share an inbox with colleagues. On most occasions it doesn’t...
2018-06-14 (first published: 2018-06-05)
2,394 reads
Convert a Positive Number To a Negative In SQL With a Spot of Bitwise Logic
Now this is something that I’ve seen asked a few times and it’s always a question that gets a fair...
2018-05-24
2,523 reads
Digitally Signing a Stored Procedure To Allow It To Run With Elevated Permissions
Have you ever had the need to give elevated permissions via a stored procedure above that what the user calling...
2018-05-14 (first published: 2018-05-02)
2,417 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #101 – My day of Essential SQL Server tools.
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to you by Jens Bestergaard – the subject is Essential SQL Server tools, the original...
2018-04-10
1,096 reads
Encrypting SQL Server Database Backups
We all go to great lengths to make sure that our databases are secure (or at least I really hope...
2018-04-09 (first published: 2018-04-04)
2,476 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Forums
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
How Long is a Long I/O?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...
T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL...
Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
See possible answers