Finding Installed Event Sessions
As a DBA, it is not uncommon to feel like you are marooned off on some tiny little island trying...
2018-12-31
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Blog Posts
Finding Installed Event Sessions
Get off that arctic island and warm up with a little XE fun. This script is quite simple but will show you what you may have out there on...
2018-12-31
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Happy New Year, Here are our Most Popular Posts of 2018
Firstly, all of us at SQL Undercover would like to wish you a very Happy New Year and all the...
2018-12-31
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Quickly Compare Data in Two Tables Using CHECKSUM and CHECKSUM_AGG
There are times when we need to compare two tables and figure out if the data matches. I often see...
2018-12-31 (first published: 2018-12-18)
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Using Microsoft Learn
I’ve just signed up on Microsoft’s new learning opportunity Microsoft Learn. The main categories are Azure, Business Apps, and Windows...
2018-12-31
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Using WGS 84 shape maps in Power BI
(2018-Dec-31) Back in July of 2018, Ontario provincial government of Canada decided to decrease the number of Toronto city wards from 47...
2018-12-31
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Visualizing Merge Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 2 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 – nested...
2018-12-31 (first published: 2018-12-18)
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…and where’s the second half gone?
I mean, it can’t be that my calendar shows December and the year is almost over? Alright, I see I...
2018-12-30
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A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database
Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables....
2018-12-30
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A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database
Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables. This nightly process removes data for operations that are...
2018-12-30
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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