Quick video showing you how to install and configure the SQL Undercover Catalogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5YlTGkV5o
Installing and Configuring the Undercover Catalogue
Undercover TV – Table Variable Deferred Compilation
David takes a look at a new feature of SQL 2019, table variable deferred compilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pscQwLwYe10&feature=youtu.be
Inspector 2.1 now available
As always all updates can be found on our Github repo Breaking changes (Powershell collection): We only test the powershell collection against 2-3 servers so please test carefully before rolling out changes especially if you are centralising more servers than we do. Unlike the SQL based agent collections we would recommend running the powershell collection... Continue Reading →
Your SQL Server’s Screaming But Is Anyone Listening? – High Severity Alert Notifications
As usual, the scripts in this post can be found HERE on our Git Hub repo If your SQL Server comes across something that it's not happy about, it really wants you to know so it'll pop an entry into the error log. First question of the day, who monitors their error log carefully? Second... Continue Reading →
Introducing The Undercover Catalogue
In this video, David give a quick introduction into the Undercover Catalogue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw98wYN1R1g
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 →
CPU custom module available for Inspector V2
If you need to keep track of CPU and are not fortunate enough to have a monitoring tool to keep hold of historical CPU usage then this module may just be for you, you can find the code on GitHub. New to the Inspector? be sure to check out the Introducing Inspector post first.We have... 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 →
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 →
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