Firstly, all of us at SQL Undercover would like to wish you a very Happy New Year and all the best for 2019. To sign off for the year, here's a quick run down of the most popular posts from SQL Undercover in 2018. Thanks to everyone who's supported us over the last 12 months.... Continue Reading →
There are times when we need to compare two tables and figure out if the data matches. I often see a number of ways of doing this suggested, most are quite slow and inefficient. I'd quite like to share a quick and slightly dirty way of doing this using the CHECKSUM and CHECKSUM_AGG functions. CHECKSUM()Just... Continue Reading →
What's the deal with logins and availability groups? I'm sure that we all, when creating a login that accesses a database that happens to be part of an availability group, diligently go and create that login on all secondary replicas, don't we?! Of course, when that AG fails over to another replica, we want to... Continue Reading →
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