For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I've started to realise that it seems to be one of those things that people aren't all that aware of. As I've been meaning to write a little series on encryption... Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago I wrote a post on how to generate a random number in SQL Server. https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/22/generating-random-numbers-for-each-row-over-a-specified-range-and-other-funky-stuff-you-can-do-with-them/ It's ok and it works, it's also a method that I used for quite a while. Why not use RAND() I've heard people say, well the issue with RAND() is that it will generate the... Continue Reading →
Blog posts have been few and far between from SQL Undercover lately but what better to try and get us back in the swing again than with T-SQL Tuesday. This month's invitation comes from Mikey Bronowski https://www.bronowski.it/blog/2021/02/t-sql-tuesday-135-the-outstanding-tools-of-the-trade-that-make-your-job-awesome/ There are so many tools that I use day in and day out to make my life easier... Continue Reading →
It looks like there was a bug lurking in sp_RestoreScript that was causing the wrong ALTER DATABASE command to be generated when using @SingleUser and a WITH MOVE parameter. 1.8 fixes this issue. For information and documentation please visit https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/29/undercover-toolbox-sp_restorescript-a-painless-way-to-generate-sql-server-database-restore-scripts/
Welcome along to the first module in our Undercover Academy's SQL Server Backup and Recovery course. In this module we're going to look at how to take and restore a full and differential backup. https://youtu.be/rVUuXvJK8XY
sp_RestoreScript 1.7 has been released. For information and documentation please visit https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/29/undercover-toolbox-sp_restorescript-a-painless-way-to-generate-sql-server-database-restore-scripts/ Changes in 1.7 New Parameters @IncludeCopyOnly - 1 - Copy only backups are included0 - Copy only backups are excluded @SingleUser - Put the database into single user mode before restoring @StopAtMark - Append stopatmark clause to any log restores @StopBeforeMark - Append... Continue Reading →
The merry-go-round scan or advanced scan is something that I've seen mentioned a few times recently and it's a lovely little feature of Enterprise Edition that not all that many people seem to know about. The thing to remember here that this is only available in Enterprise Edition, so unfortunately those of you on Standard... Continue Reading →
This is just going to be a quick post but I was asked the question the other day, how can I find all the tables in the database that don't have a clustered index? Tables without clustered indexes, known as heaps can give you quite a few different performance problems for various reasons. I don't... Continue Reading →
SQL Server has given us the option to backup our databases directly to Azure BLOB storage for a while now but it's not something that I've had all that much call to use until recently. So this is just going to be a quick walk through on how you can backup your on premise SQL... Continue Reading →
This month's T-SQL Tuesday invitation is from Ken Fisher and he's asking about non-SQL tips and tricks. This had me thinking for a bit and then something popped into my head, an accidental discovery that I made the other day. I apologise if this is common knowledge among the PoSH guys but it was a... Continue Reading →
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