Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily create database snapshots. This new version fixes a bug that we've found in version 2 where snapshots will fail for databases with multiple data files. We've also added the @STMTOnly parameter, allowing you to generate the scripts for creating the required... Continue Reading →
The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability group (DAG) to help facilitate a SQL server migration. SQL Server Migration Using a Distributed Availability Group One thing that I mentioned in that post was that,... Continue Reading →
We've been hearing of a few people getting errors from the latest Undercover Catalogue, Powershell interrogation script. The issue seems to be happening when the scripts tries downloading automatic updates and online module definitions when running the script with older versions of Powershell. A new version of the script has now been uploaded to our... Continue Reading →
Full documentation on the Undercover Catalogue can be found HERE It's been a while since the Undercover Catalogue last received an update but having had a few of those moments recently when I thought to myself 'I really wish I was capturing that data', so I decided to roll a few changes into the Catalogue.... Continue Reading →
This post refers to an older version of this procedure. Please see HERE for the latest version. Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, to easily create database snapshots. This new version adds more flexibility to the procedure, allowing you to specify the snapshot's suffix, add a timestamp and alter the path... Continue Reading →
All the changes for this release can be found in the Github Project page Mainly bug fixes this time around , but we have also added new functionality: Improvements #263 If you centralize your Servers' collections into a single database, you may be interested in the latest addition, we added the ability to override most... 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/
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 →
BlitzFileStats is the latest addition to our custom module collection for reporting on data logged to tables using the First Responder kit, We created a new project where we plan on producing two other new modules for Perfmon data and BlitzWho data collected by the First Responder kit data collection alongside the previously released BlitzWaits custom module... Continue Reading →
Undercover Catalogue Update 0.4.3 An update to the tables module, Row count and size infotmation added Fix - LocalInterrogation There was an issue with the LocalInterrogation stored proc not updating the execution log, this has now been fixed. Undercover Inspector Updates we forgot to mention from May (V2.2): Added EmailGroup column to ReportData table #216Added... Continue Reading →
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