Sometimes you just want to get a quick row count for a specific table - other times you may want to see a list of tables order by size or row count or perhaps you are monitoring table row counts, whatever it is the chances are you have a script or various scripts stashed away... Continue Reading →
Be sure to get the latest version of this script from our GitHub, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox Have you ever wanted a quick and easy way to see who was holding (and waiting on) locks on a particular database? Perhaps you've got some blocking issues going on and you want to see exactly which rows the row level... Continue Reading →
Here's a little error that I stumbled across the other day when trying to migrate the data files of an Availability Group secondary node onto a nice new SAN. I started off by running the following command against the secondary server. ALTER DATABASE SQLUndercover MODIFY FILE (NAME = 'AG01', FILENAME = 'E:\DATA\AG01.mdf') There's nothing wrong... Continue Reading →
This is going to be a bit of a brain storming post that comes from an interesting question that I was asked today... "I've got a table with a ID code field, now some of the rows have a value in that field and some are NULL. How can I go about filling in those... Continue Reading →
