In this episode, David looks at how we can encrypt our SQL Server backup files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UdX04fHQo&feature=youtu.be
SQL Undercover TV – Encrypting SQL Backups
SQL Undercover TV – Using Excel to Visualise SQL Performance Data
Adrian looks at how you can use Excel to visualise SQL performance data, specifically data collected by the Blitz First Responder Kit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63HkWalXdRk
Getting table row counts with sp_Tablecount
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 →
Finding the Primary Replica of an Availability Group
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 →
Undercover TV Podcast – Scripting Options in SSMS
In this episode of the podcast, Adrian looks at the scripting options available in SSMS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LAVuOaWj2g
Availability Groups and Redo Latency, Data Committed on a Primary isn’t Visible on a Synchronous Secondary
If you're running availability groups it may seem like a great idea to offload your read only reporting workloads to a secondary. There are a couple of ways that you could do that, you could use read only routing or simply just point those reports directly at a read only secondary (read only routing is... Continue Reading →
Undercover TV Podcast – Intent Locks
The first of our new series of new look podcasts, David has a look at intent locks in SQL Server and what the purpose of them is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vNrHJR984
We Thought That Sean McCown’s SMO Tutorial Was So Good, It Needed To Be A Video In It’s Own Right
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 →
sp_LockDetails – Get Details of all Locks Taken Out Against a Database.
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 →
Getting Our Query Back After SSMS Crashed or We Closed the Tab Without Saving It
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 →
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