As always all updates can be found on our Github repo Breaking changes (Powershell collection): We only test the powershell collection against 2-3 servers so please test carefully before rolling out changes especially if you are centralising more servers than we do. Unlike the SQL based agent collections we would recommend running the powershell collection... Continue Reading →
We have been working on a new custom module for Inspector V2, in fact this module is part of a new project where we will be producing two other new modules for Perfmon data and BlitzWho data collected by the First Responder kit data collection. It's all open source so if you have improvement ideas... Continue Reading →
If you need to keep track of CPU and are not fortunate enough to have a monitoring tool to keep hold of historical CPU usage then this module may just be for you, you can find the code on GitHub. New to the Inspector? be sure to check out the Introducing Inspector post first.We have... Continue Reading →
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 →
This is going to be a bit of a quick post but one about something that I see coming up time and time again on SQL Undercover's search terms. How do I find an availability group's primary server? A while back, Adrian put together a bunch of queries for Always On Availability Groups, 7 ways... 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 →
Releases seem to be coming out thick and fast at the moment, here's the latest v1.6 revision to sp_restorescript For those of you backing up to Azure BLOB Storage, we've now added a @Credential parameter. You can grab the latest version from our GitHub repo, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/sp_restorescript.sql or for full documentation, visit https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/29/undercover-toolbox-sp_restorescript-a-painless-way-to-generate-sql-server-database-restore-scripts/
We've released sp_RestoreScript 1.5. This is only a minor release but adds the type of the backup file to the output. You can grab the latest version from our GitHub repo, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/sp_restorescript.sql or for full documentation, visit https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/29/undercover-toolbox-sp_restorescript-a-painless-way-to-generate-sql-server-database-restore-scripts/
sp_RestoreScript 1.4 is now out and ready for download from our GitHub, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/sp_restorescript.sql Full documentation on sp_RestoreScript can be found at https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/29/undercover-toolbox-sp_restorescript-a-painless-way-to-generate-sql-server-database-restore-scripts/ New Features Compatible with case sensitive collations Now accepts wild cards in the @DatabaseName string, ('Database1,Database2,SQL%') would now be a valid option with % treated as a wildcard. Bug Fixes An issue when... Continue Reading →
We love xp_fixeddrives here, it's a quick and simple way to see how much space you've got available on your drives. But there are just a couple of things that I really wish it would do better. Firstly, I'd love to see the total size of the drive and possibly even a percentage of free... Continue Reading →
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