SQL Undercover TV – Using Excel to Visualise SQL Performance Data
Adrian looks at how you can use Excel to visualise SQL performance data, specifically data collected by the Blitz First Responder Kit
2019-11-05
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Adrian looks at how you can use Excel to visualise SQL performance data, specifically data collected by the Blitz First Responder Kit
2019-11-05
107 reads
Sometimes you just want to get a quick row count for a specific table – other times you may want to see a list of tables order by size...
2019-11-06 (first published: 2019-10-30)
1,055 reads
This is going to be a bit of a quick post but one about something that I see coming up time and time again on SQL Undercover’s search terms....
2019-10-24
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In this episode of the podcast, Adrian looks at the scripting options available in SSMS.
2019-10-31 (first published: 2019-10-21)
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If you’re running availability groups it may seem like a great idea to offload your read only reporting workloads to a secondary. There are a couple of ways that...
2019-10-28 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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The first of our new series of new look podcasts, David has a look at intent locks in SQL Server and what the purpose of them is.
2019-10-18 (first published: 2019-10-14)
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Back in February, Sean McCown joined us on the Undercover podcast and presented a brilliant tutorial on the SMO. We thought that it was so good that we’ve decided...
2019-10-01
43 reads
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Kevin Chant and he’s asking us about a fantasy feature that we’d love to see in SQL Server. I had a little...
2019-09-09
21 reads
Releases seem to be coming out thick and fast at the moment, here’s the latest v1.6 revision to sp_restorescript For those of you backing up to Azure BLOB Storage,...
2019-08-29
44 reads
This is going to be a quick post but this morning I was asked the question, ‘how can I get the name of all the database snapshots on a...
2019-08-15
139 reads
By Steve Jones
This value is something that I still hear today: our best work is done...
By gbargsley
Have you ever received the dreaded error from SQL Server that the TempDB log...
By Chris Yates
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It is here, embedded in the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Planning for tomorrow, today -...
We have a BI-application that connects to input tables on a SQL Server 2022...
At work we've been getting better at writing what's known as GitHub Actions (workflows,...
I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers