A while back, I was having a conversation about a deadlocking issue and suggested that an index could perhaps help solve it. The reaction I got was along the lines of, 'What, how can in index solve a deadlocking issue?' So, can we solve a deadlocking issue with an index? Let's create a rather simple,... Continue Reading →
In this episode, Adrian looks at some of the new features of the Undercover Inspector1.3 and special guest, Sean McCown give us a fantastic intro into the Powershell SMO (0:23:20). All Sean's scripts can be found at on Git Hub at https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/tree/master/Undercover%20TV%20Scripts/BeginningSMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCx1UbZ6iLc&t=4s
Post Updated: Replaced Query 3 with transactions/sec query. When we first published 7 ways to Query Always On Availability Groups using SQL we had no idea it would so popular! So here is a quick post with 7 more ways to query Always on availability groups using TSQL, its always handy to have a few little... Continue Reading →
Please see https://sqlundercover.com/undercover-catalogue-0-2/ for full details on the Undercover Catalogue and how to obtain it. We've spotted an issue where unicode datatypes were having their size recorded as the data length rather than character count in the 'Tables' module. Another issue affected any MAX datatypes which were having their length mis-recorded. Version 0.2.1 fixes both... Continue Reading →
It's 4am in the morning and my phone starts ringing. A blury eyed, me picks it up to hear the voice of one of our application guys at the other end saying something about an upgrade he was trying to carry out failing. So it turns out that he was trying to run an ALTER... Continue Reading →
We're pleased to announce the release of the Undercover Catalogue 0.2 and can be downloaded from https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/tree/master/SQLUndercoverCatalogue The new version brings with it a number of new modules as well as the thing that we're most excited about, a Power Bi dashboard to make keeping track of your SQL Server estate even easier. Power BI... Continue Reading →
Unfortunately we discovered a small bug in 1.3, the Database ownership module default warning level was not showing a yellow advisory condition when using the Inspector default warning level (NULL), we have now updated Git with the latest revision. If you would rather not re install 1.3 again you can workaround the issue by running... Continue Reading →
Inspector V1.3 is now available on GitHub. We have updated the sample report for you to play with which includes the new informational section added in this build. We updated our getting started guide. We know some of you really hate linked servers so we have been working on a powershell collection which will allow... Continue Reading →
During a recent DR scenario I came across a slight misinterpretation in how availability groups with replicas in synchronous commit behave. How An Availability Group With A Synchronous Secondary Should Behave Under Normal Circumstances Normally, if we've got a secondary replica in synchronous commit mode, our primary can't commit any transactions until that transaction has... Continue Reading →
