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 →
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 →
I recently hit this rather interesting issue when migrating a bunch of SQL Servers onto a nice, shiny new SAN. The plan was simple enough, take the secondary servers in the four node cluster, migrate those over to the new SAN provided to me by the lovely storage guys. Once they were done, fail the... 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 →
Some breaking changes were introduced with dbatools 1.0.0, please make sure that you've got the latest version of hotfix 2 installed as well as the lastest Interrogation script runningThe minimum version of dbatools that we now support is 1.0.0 Undercover Catalogue 0.2.2 It looks like a bug has crept it's way into the Undercover Catalogue.... Continue Reading →
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