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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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Blogs
AI Experiments: Claude Solved a DAB Issue
By Steve Jones
I’m sure many of you are using AI regularly, perhaps chatting, perhaps using some...
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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