Have you ever had the need to build an IN list from some rows you had in excel? Or maybe you have a bunch of data you pulled out of a results set from some other server somewhere and you are unable to join tables so you need to plug the values into an... Continue Reading →
The latest addition to our toolbox is not a one size fits all, this procedure may or may not suit your needs but if you have a requirement of setting database ownership's to a specific login across the board such as SA, then this Stored procedure may well be for you. The idea of... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
At SQLUndercover we decided it would be a good idea to not only upgrade our test lab but to treat it as if it were a live system carrying out an in place upgrade with minimal downtime, here's how we did it: Here is our very basic setup for this scenario, we have two availability... Continue Reading →
One way i tend to query multiple servers in one go is to use Registered servers, but there are times when I might need to run something against a specific set of servers which i do not have a Registered servers group for, or maybe i need to select these servers dynamically. Maybe i do... Continue Reading →
I know I know, Why not just use the GUI right? well that's ok but sometimes the GUI just takes too long for me...maybe I am a little impatient but sometimes I just need something to run that will give me the answers in just a couple of seconds with the touch of a button.... Continue Reading →
Here is a relatively simple yet effective stored procedure to quickly view those failed login attempts (an alternative to viewing the SQL Server Error log manually and filtering). There are other ways of getting this information, but we liked the idea of having a stored procedure that we could run Ad hoc when we wanted. Its... Continue Reading →
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