Here’s an interesting issue that recently came up. We were seeing very high compilations and recompilations on a server to the point that it started causing us some very...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-19)
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It look like we had a little bug in sp_RestoreScript that was putting a rogue 0 after the backup file name. That’s now been fixed in 1.9. For information...
2021-09-16
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This is something that comes up time and time again. A developer or member of the service desk comes up to me and says “SQL’s timing out, you see...
2021-07-27
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As always the code can be found here in our github repoWe updated our sample report here We forgot to mention V2.5! We added the ability to add Thresholds...
2021-07-23
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We all had those calls, it’s the middle of the night and we get that phone call that a customer is getting error messages due to their tempDB being...
2021-06-30 (first published: 2021-06-18)
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For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I’ve started to realise that...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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A couple of years ago I wrote a post on how to generate a random number in SQL Server. https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/22/generating-random-numbers-for-each-row-over-a-specified-range-and-other-funky-stuff-you-can-do-with-them/ It’s ok and it works, it’s also a method...
2021-03-31
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Blog posts have been few and far between from SQL Undercover lately but what better to try and get us back in the swing again than with T-SQL Tuesday....
2021-02-09
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This is one of them little options that I see which quite often gets little consideration or gets set to a user database without consideration of what the consequences...
2020-12-09 (first published: 2020-11-30)
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All the changes for this release can be found in the Github Project page Mainly bug fixes this time around , but we have also added new functionality: Improvements...
2020-12-01
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By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers