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
Undercover TV – Table Variable Deferred Compilation
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
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 →
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 →
Inspector V2.00 now available
The SQL Installation file can be found here.The new Powershell installer can be found here.If you are running the powershell collection you will need to grab the latest revision.The latest powerBI template can be found here.As more features are documented they will be updated on the Inspector V2 page. New Features Schedule report windows and... 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
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