A Quick Look At The All New Undercover Catalogue, Preview Release Due Out Soon…
I thought I’d give you all a little preview of our latest offering, the Undercover Catalogue which should be available...
2018-08-06
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SQL Undercover
Are your backup files where they say they are?
I was having a cleanup of some old scripts the other day when I stumbled upon a script I wrote...
2018-08-08 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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Selecting a Random Row From a Table
A couple of times recently I’ve seen the question asked, ‘How can I select a single row at random from...
2018-07-26 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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T-SQL Tuesday #104 – My Undercover Toolbox favourites
This months T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Bert Wagner , you can find the invitation for this months topic here.
Bert...
2018-07-18 (first published: 2018-07-10)
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Backup Your On Premise SQL Server Directly to an AWS S3 Bucket
I’ve been having a little play around with AWS recently and was looking at S3 (AWS’ cloud storage) when I...
2018-06-18
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Resend an email sent from SQL Server using TSQL
Sometimes emails from SQL Server go missing, especially when you share an inbox with colleagues. On most occasions it doesn’t...
2018-06-14 (first published: 2018-06-05)
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Convert a Positive Number To a Negative In SQL With a Spot of Bitwise Logic
Now this is something that I’ve seen asked a few times and it’s always a question that gets a fair...
2018-05-24
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Digitally Signing a Stored Procedure To Allow It To Run With Elevated Permissions
Have you ever had the need to give elevated permissions via a stored procedure above that what the user calling...
2018-05-14 (first published: 2018-05-02)
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T-SQL Tuesday #101 – My day of Essential SQL Server tools.
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to you by Jens Bestergaard – the subject is Essential SQL Server tools, the original...
2018-04-10
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Encrypting SQL Server Database Backups
We all go to great lengths to make sure that our databases are secure (or at least I really hope...
2018-04-09 (first published: 2018-04-04)
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Blogs
Databases and AI Agents
By Arun Sirpal
As part of my wider work exploring Claude Code and AI-assisted database engineering, I...
Creating a Pulsing Conducting Baton - Part 1
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Train Wreck The last time I watched a high school band nearly fall apart mid-performance...
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If you are considering any of the ISACA AI certs like the Advanced Artificial...
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Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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