Here is a little script that gives an overview of your current ONLINE databases, their data and log File names, sizes and growth rates - if the growth rate is a percentage it will calculate this for you so that it is represented as a value in MB in addition to showing you the Percentage... Continue Reading →
Have you ever needed to store the results of a complex query in a temp table? How did you go about working out what the definition for that temp table should be, the columns and their data types? It can be a bit of a pain, not to mention time consuming to have to go... 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?'. 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 →
(Latest Version 1.8 - 23 November 2020) I'm sure we've all been there, we need to restore a database to 11:34am, four days ago. What's the first step? To go off hunting down the relevant full and differential backups and then figure out what transaction logs we need to play in and in what order.... Continue Reading →
When Microsoft announced STRING_SPLIT, cries of joy and jubilation could be heard all around the offices of SQL Undercover. For those of you who aren't aware of this miracle of the database world, we've finally got a way of converting a delimited string into a table. If you've ever written a proc or script where you... Continue Reading →
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