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
My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework...
By Steve Jones
“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each...
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
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How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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