The most-read posts in 2018
Good morning #sqlfamily folks! The very first post in the new year 2019. Tell me: when this time passed??? The...
2019-01-01
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Blog Posts
Why I’m Breaking Up with Facebook
I have been in a serious relationship for more than 12 years. My partner in this relationship has brought me joy through the years, but lately, I feel like...
2019-01-01
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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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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)
3,866 reads
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
428 reads
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
1,408 reads
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)
2,989 reads
…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
185 reads
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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