Back in February, Sean McCown joined us on the Undercover podcast and presented a brilliant tutorial on the SMO. We thought that it was so good that we've decided to make it into a video in it's own right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3rk8wTmkVY The podcasts are going to be revived very soon with a whole new format and... 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 quick one for you, have you ever spent all day working on some query or another only for SSMS to crash or for you to accidentally close the tab that you're working on without saving the query? I'm sure you have, we all have. What happens next is usually a muttering of some... Continue Reading →
This month's T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Kevin Chant and he's asking us about a fantasy feature that we'd love to see in SQL Server. I had a little think about this and there's one thing that came straight to my mind, it is something that's possible with third party tools but isn't something supported... 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're pleased to announce the release of the Undercover Catalogue 0.3.0. You can grab it from our GitHub page... https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/tree/master/SQLUndercoverCatalogue Installing and Upgrading Full installation and upgrade instructions can be found on the main Catalogue page, https://sqlundercover.com/undercover-catalogue-0-2/ v0.3.0 Brings Auditing to the Catalogue The biggest change that we've introduced to the Catalogue is auditing. All... Continue Reading →
This is going to be a quick post but this morning I was asked the question, 'how can I get the name of all the database snapshots on a SQL Server?'. It was an interesting question so I thought I'd share a quick script to do just that. We're going to need to tap into... Continue Reading →
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/
Intent locks, one of those things in SQL Server that seem to be very often misunderstood. They're something that I've found myself explaining time and time again, I've even been on calls with customer DBAs who don't fully understand why they're there and what they're doing. So what exactly is an intent lock and why... Continue Reading →
