In this video, David give a quick introduction into the Undercover Catalogue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw98wYN1R1g
Introducing The Undercover Catalogue
Managing Agent Jobs on Availability Group Servers
As always, the scripts in this post can also be found on our Git Hub repo, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/CatagoryControlledAgentJobs.sql Agent jobs, they can be a right pain to manage when you're running availability groups. The problem is that they're just not AG aware, this means that if you failover our AG, more often than not you're going... Continue Reading →
Undercover Catalogue 0.4.0 Released
We're pleased to announce the release of the Undercover Catalogue 0.4.0, (please see HERE for full details of the Catalogue). The new version brings with it a number of new features and enhancements. Centralisation The on of the main focuses of 0.4 is centralisation. The first major change that 0.4.0 brings is centralisation. With previous... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year – Our Top Posts of 2019
With the New Year fast approaching and maybe already having arrived depending on where you are, we thought we'd do a quick recap of our top 5 posts from 2019. Using Indexing to Solve Blocking and Deadlocking Issues Availability Groups and Redo Latency, Data Committed on a Primary isn’t Visible on a Synchronous Secondary Why... Continue Reading →
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us here at SQL Undercover 🙂
SQL Undercover TV Christmas Special – David's Top 5 Azure Data Studio Features
In our Christmas Special, David picks his top 5 features of Azure Data Studio. https://youtu.be/-7rF_g2v-rI
Troubleshooting Resource Semaphore and Memory Grants
Memory grants, now here's a fun thing that can pretty much take your SQL Server to its knees. The Symptoms The first thing that you're going to notice is that your SQL Server is going to be running slowly and I mean, slooooooow! When I've got a server on a serious go slow, the first... Continue Reading →
SQL Undercover TV – Encrypting SQL Backups
In this episode, David looks at how we can encrypt our SQL Server backup files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UdX04fHQo&feature=youtu.be
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63HkWalXdRk
