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 →
As usual, the scripts in this post can be found HERE on our Git Hub repo If your SQL Server comes across something that it's not happy about, it really wants you to know so it'll pop an entry into the error log. First question of the day, who monitors their error log carefully? Second... 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 →
In this video, David give a quick introduction into the Undercover Catalogue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw98wYN1R1g
As always, the scripts in this post can also be found on our Git Hub repo, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/CatagoryControlledAgentJobs.sql Agent jobs, they can be a right pain to manage when you're running availability groups. The problem is that they're just not AG aware, this means that if you failover our AG, more often than not you're going... Continue Reading →
We're pleased to announce the release of the Undercover Catalogue 0.4.0, (please see HERE for full details of the Catalogue). The new version brings with it a number of new features and enhancements. Centralisation The on of the main focuses of 0.4 is centralisation. The first major change that 0.4.0 brings is centralisation. With previous... 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 →
With the New Year fast approaching and maybe already having arrived depending on where you are, we thought we'd do a quick recap of our top 5 posts from 2019. Using Indexing to Solve Blocking and Deadlocking Issues Availability Groups and Redo Latency, Data Committed on a Primary isn’t Visible on a Synchronous Secondary Why... Continue Reading →
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us here at SQL Undercover 🙂
