UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: Get Details of All Open Transactions
It was 3am in the morning and I was asleep and enjoying a delightful dream (I knew it was a...
2018-02-07
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Creating a SQL Server Test Lab On Your Workstation – Part Three, Creating a Windows Failover Cluster and a SQL Server Availability Group
Welcome along to the third part of our series ‘Creating a SQL Server Test Lab On Your Workstation’. If you’ve...
2018-02-02 (first published: 2018-01-24)
2,213 reads
Undercover TV – We’ve got a YouTube channel!
We’ve now got ourselves a shiny new YouTube channel at UndercoverTV.
We’ll be using this to host our monthly podcasts as well...
2018-02-01
389 reads
sp_RestoreScript 1.2 is now available
sp_RestoreScript 1.2 is now available HERE and on GitHub
Changes include Service Broker options and the ability to restore a database in...
2018-01-30
642 reads
SQL Undercover Podcast – Feb 2018
The first SQL Undercover podcast where Adrian introduces the Undercover Inspector, David releases sp_restorescript 1.2 along with a bit of...
2018-01-29
443 reads
Dissecting SQL Server, The Internal Structure of a Row
I’m sure that most of us know that SQL Server stores all it’s data in 8Kb pages. But what do...
2018-01-26 (first published: 2018-01-15)
1,993 reads
Introducing: The SQLUndercover Inspector
Introducing: The SQLUndercover Inspector! Finally we have a V1 almost ready to hit our GitHub but what exactly is it?
Just another...
2018-01-22
471 reads
All Scripts Now On Github
@adedba Adrian Buckman has been working hard and has put all of our scripts up on Github https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox
2018-01-18
363 reads
Creating a SQL Server Test Lab On Your Workstation – Part Two, Creating a Domain Account and Joining a SQL Server to the Domain
In the second part of our series on creating a SQL Server test lab on your workstation, I’m going to...
2018-01-12 (first published: 2018-01-03)
2,323 reads
UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: sp_AGReconfigure – Manage Always on Sync & Failover settings from a single stored procedure.
From time to time we need to make changes to Always on Availability group Synchronization mode settings , this also includes...
2017-12-20 (first published: 2017-12-08)
1,478 reads
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Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
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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...
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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
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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?
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