Adrian has a look at the performance benefits of instant file initialisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NE-ipzLbQ&feature=youtu.be Below is Ade's auto growth script... DECLARE @trcfilename VARCHAR(1000) ; SELECT @trcfilename = path FROM sys.traces WHERE is_default = 1 SELECT StartTime , DB_NAME(DatabaseID) AS DatabaseName , FileName, SUM(( IntegerData * 8 ) / 1024) AS [Growth (MB)] , ( Duration /... Continue Reading →
Installing and Configuring the Undercover Catalogue
Quick video showing you how to install and configure the SQL Undercover Catalogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5YlTGkV5o
Undercover TV – Table Variable Deferred Compilation
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 Tools: January Updates and Change Log
Below is the January list of changes and updates to the Undercover Tools. Undercover Catalogue Update 0.4.0Major upgrade, see https://sqlundercover.com/2020/01/06/undercover-catalogue-0-4-0-released/ for full details Update 0.4.1ServerConfig module added, detailing settings exposed in sp_configure settings Services module fix, adds compatibility with older service packs of SQL2012 and 2014 Addition of an upgrade history table Undercover Inspector Update... Continue Reading →
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 →
