UPDATE Aug 2024: With SQL2022, things have changed and we're now able to backup directly to S3 without the need for third part tools. Check out how to do that here... Backup SQL Server to AWS S3 Bucket (2022 Update) I've been having a little play around with AWS recently and was looking at S3 (AWS'... Continue Reading →
We all go to great lengths to make sure that our databases are secure (or at least I really hope that we do), we make sure that only authorised users have access and then only to the databases and levels that they need. We're careful that all our passwords conform to crazy complexity rules. We're... Continue Reading →
sp_RestoreScript 1.2 is now available HERE and on GitHub Changes include Service Broker options and the ability to restore a database in stand by, along with a couple of bug fixes.
Where do you send your backup files? Here at SQLUndercover, we like all our databases to have their own backup folder, it just makes it nice and easy to find things. But what happens if someone creates a new database but doesn't create a backup folder for that database? Unless you're doing some kind of... Continue Reading →
"I just tried restoring a copy of my database but now the original's in recovery" That was the panicked question that I was asked earlier today and as it's something that I've seen come up more than a couple of times, I thought I'd write up a lunchtime quickie to explain the issue. If you... Continue Reading →
Holy Database Restores Batman, sp_RestoreScript 1.1 is now available in the Undercover Toolbox and at UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: sp_RestoreScript – A Painless way to generate SQL Server database restore scripts. This update fixes an issue that we've found when running on SQL Servers prior to 2016.
One question that seems to come up on the forums again and again is, 'how can I see when my database was last backed up?'. There are always a bunch of answers and some very convoluted scripts thrown around. As a bit of a lunchtime quickie today I thought I'd share with you a script... Continue Reading →
(Latest Version 1.8 - 23 November 2020) I'm sure we've all been there, we need to restore a database to 11:34am, four days ago. What's the first step? To go off hunting down the relevant full and differential backups and then figure out what transaction logs we need to play in and in what order.... Continue Reading →
Here's a little issue that I came across last week and I thought I'd share my investigations with you. Users started to report that a database was inaccessible and when I had a look, sure enough the database was in 'recovery pending' state. That's odd, a database usually only goes into 'recovery pending' state at... Continue Reading →
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