Just a quick post this time , I was fumbling around the DMV's the other day looking for a specific Availability group DMV that I just couldn't remember the name of - I think we have all been there before with some of the DMV names! 🙂 Whilst I was combing through various combinations of... Continue Reading →
"I just tried restoring a copy of my database but now the original's in recovery" That was the panicked question that I was asked earlier today and as it's something that I've seen come up more than a couple of times, I thought I'd write up a lunchtime quickie to explain the issue. If you... Continue Reading →
The other day we were chatting about DR scenarios and one of the scenarios that cropped up was what to do when Master becomes corrupt. It doesn't take alot of searching on Google to find some good blog posts with step by step guides on how to either restore master or Rebuild, but I... Continue Reading →
Update: 07/08/2017 - Identified and fixed a bug with the Elapsed Days not showing accurately. Update: 31/7/2017 - We have improved the Stored Procedure, the revised version now includes Days elapsed in addition to Hours, Minutes and Seconds. There are quite a few Running agent job scripts out there , most of the ones I... Continue Reading →
Holy Database Restores Batman, sp_RestoreScript 1.1 is now available in the Undercover Toolbox and at UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: sp_RestoreScript – A Painless way to generate SQL Server database restore scripts. This update fixes an issue that we've found when running on SQL Servers prior to 2016.
We had a little play around writing our own encryption algorithms and cracking them in Secret Codes And SQL Server, Part 1: Writing Our Own Encryption Algorithm and Cracking it. I thought I'd see if we can go a step further and start having a look at how we could take those basic ideas and try... Continue Reading →
I quite often find myself scripting objects out via T-SQL rather than using the GUI, it's not that I have anything against using the GUI to script out a Stored procedure, it's just that sometimes this can be time-consuming especially when there are alot of stored procedures in the Programmability folder. I know that... Continue Reading →
One question that seems to come up on the forums again and again is, 'how can I see when my database was last backed up?'. Â There are always a bunch of answers and some very convoluted scripts thrown around. As a bit of a lunchtime quickie today I thought I'd share with you a script... Continue Reading →
In one of my previous posts I went over a scenario where an Auto restore job was logging Restore errors to a table and the error that was being inserted was '3013 - RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally' and this was due to SQL Server only providing the Last most error produced which is stored... Continue Reading →
