This month's T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Tracy Boggiano and she's asking us to write about our experiences with Query Store. I thought about what I should write, I'm a big fan of query store and I've used it to help me out on a number of occasions recently. I could write about one of... Continue Reading →
I decided to write this off the back of a conversation I was having the other day around the SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD wait type. The conversation went something along the lines of "but David, I'm seeing SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD, we must have CPU issues". Yes this particular customer had been CPU bound recently but was that really their problem... Continue Reading →
Quick video showing you how to install and configure the SQL Undercover Catalogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5YlTGkV5o
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 →
In this video, David give a quick introduction into the Undercover Catalogue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw98wYN1R1g
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 →
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 →
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 →
In our Christmas Special, David picks his top 5 features of Azure Data Studio. https://youtu.be/-7rF_g2v-rI
