#TSQL2sDay – #112 – Mini cookies
This months TSQL Tuesday is hosted by Shane O’Neill (Blog | Twitter) Shane explains the Topic as:
Dipping into the Cookie Jar...
2019-03-12
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SQL Undercover
TSQL Tuesday #112 – Dipping into the Cookie Jar
This month’s TSQL Tuesday comes from Shane O’Neil and he’s asking us to ‘dip into the cookie jar’ (or raid...
2019-03-12
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Using Indexing To Solve Blocking and Deadlocking Issues
A while back, I was having a conversation about a deadlocking issue and suggested that an index could perhaps help...
2019-03-20 (first published: 2019-03-05)
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Undercover TV – Sean McCown Joins Us For a Session on Beginning Powershell SMO
In this episode, Adrian looks at some of the new features of the Undercover Inspector1.3 and special guest, Sean McCown...
2019-02-26
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7 more ways to Query Always on Availability groups
Post Updated: Replaced Query 3 with transactions/sec query.
When we first published 7 ways to Query Always On Availability Groups using...
2019-02-19
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Undercover Catalogue 0.2.1, Fixes An Issue With The Recording Of Unicode And MAX Datatype Lengths
Please see https://sqlundercover.com/undercover-catalogue-0-2/ for full details on the Undercover Catalogue and how to obtain it.
We’ve spotted an issue where unicode...
2019-02-14
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ALTER TABLE Fails on Replicated Tables With Isolation Level SERIALIZABLE or READ UNCOMMITTED on SQL2012 and Earlier
It’s 4am in the morning and my phone starts ringing.
A blury eyed, me picks it up to hear the voice...
2019-02-07
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Undercover Catalogue 0.2 Released
We’re pleased to announce the release of the Undercover Catalogue 0.2 and can be downloaded from https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/tree/master/SQLUndercoverCatalogue
The new version brings...
2019-02-04
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Inspector V1.3 hotfix
Unfortunately we discovered a small bug in 1.3, the Database ownership module default warning level was not showing a yellow...
2019-01-16
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Inspector V1.3 now available
Inspector V1.3 is now available on GitHub.
We have updated the sample report for you to play with which includes the...
2019-01-15
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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