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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Blog Posts
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)
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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. This nightly process removes data for operations that are...
2018-12-30
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Blogs
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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