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Installing External Modules into SQL Server’s Python
So Microsoft have integrated Python into SQL Server, from the moment I heard that I thought to myself, "wow, this is exciting stuff" and not just for the machine learning, BI guys that it was marketed at. It's exciting for us DBAs too, my head was in a buzz with all the things that we... Continue Reading →
Undercover TV- Episode 2
The latest webcast from SQLUndercover.com. In this episode David and Adrian take a look at a few blog posts that have caught their interest, review Minion Backup from Minionware and announce the release of the all new Undercover Catalogue v0.1. Links featured in this webcast are, https://www.sqlrx.com/using-sys-sql_e... http://www.sqlservercentral.com/artic... https://mikesdatawork.wordpress.com/2... http://www.minionware.net/ http://www.midnightdba.com/
Undercover Catalogue 0.1 Released
Easily Keep Track of All Your SQL Servers We know what it's like when you've got 101 SQL Servers to manage, or even just a couple. It can be almost impossible to keep track of all these servers, their versions, the databases that they host, permissions, dependencies... the list goes on. We developed the Undercover... Continue Reading →
SQL Server Encryption, What’s The Key Hierarchy All About?
I'm sure that we all know that SQL Server includes all sorts of interesting functionality to allow us to encrypt our data and like with all encryption techniques, that data is encrypted using keys. In SQL Server we've got a number of different keys, we've got the Service Master Key, Database Master Keys, Symmetric... Continue Reading →
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 in Preview version very soon. So what actually is it? The Undercover Catalogue will help you to build up a picture of your entire SQL infrastructure. It'll go out, discover and interrogate all of your... Continue Reading →
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 some time ago. I remember writing the script because from time to time I would get asked if I can restore a copy of a specific database to a particular point in time... Continue Reading →
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 a table?'. There are often a few ways of doing this suggested, most seem to rely using CTEs or temp tables. I thought I'd share, in a quick post a very simple and easy way... Continue Reading →
Backup Your On Premise SQL Server Directly to an AWS S3 Bucket
UPDATE Aug 2024: With SQL2022, things have changed and we're now able to backup directly to S3 without the need for third part tools. Check out how to do that here... Backup SQL Server to AWS S3 Bucket (2022 Update) I've been having a little play around with AWS recently and was looking at S3 (AWS'... Continue Reading →
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 always matter as the job that generated the email can simply be re ran to produce the email once again, but what about those emails that contain time specific information? we cannot simple just kick... Continue Reading →
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