Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily create database snapshots. This new version fixes a bug that we’ve found in version 2...
2025-10-24 (first published: 2025-10-02)
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It’s been forgotten about and neglected for few years but I’ve decided to dust off the cobwebs and revive our YouTube channel. Keep an eye on it, every new...
2025-07-11
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A while ago I was looking into some odd errors that were cropping up in an application, when I spotted that all the columns in a table were defined...
2025-06-30
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The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability...
2025-04-14 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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SQL Server migrations are a headache, ask anyone who’s been through the pain of moving a reasonably large server and I’m sure they will agree. There are all sorts...
2025-02-19 (first published: 2025-02-05)
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This post comes off the back of my last, where I looked at issues caused by explicitly declaring a large number of values in an IN clause. The query...
2024-12-11 (first published: 2024-12-04)
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Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an application was throwing up the following SQL error, The query processor ran out of internal...
2024-11-13 (first published: 2024-10-30)
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“Could you help me, we deleted the database’s transaction log file and now that database is stuck in ‘Recovery Pending’?” This was a panicked call that I received a...
2024-10-14 (first published: 2024-09-26)
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Full documentation on the Undercover Catalogue can be found HERE We’ve spotted a bug in the Databases module where an unprintable ASCII character was being inserted at the beginning of...
2024-09-12
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Way back in the mists of time I wrote a post on how to backup SQL server to an S3 bucket using TNTDrive, https://sqlundercover.com/2018/06/18/backup-your-on-premise-sql-server-directly-to-an-aws-s3-bucket/. Back then, if we wanted...
2024-08-26 (first published: 2024-08-13)
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By Brian Kelley
If you are considering any of the ISACA AI certs like the Advanced Artificial...
By ChrisJenkins
Are you currently using Microsoft Fabric or considering migrating to it? If so, there...
By SQLPals
Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log If you...
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In the Database Engine, when a deadlock is detected, what does the detection interval shrink to (in time)?
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