In this episode of the podcast, Adrian looks at the scripting options available in SSMS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LAVuOaWj2g
Undercover TV Podcast – Scripting Options in SSMS
‘Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object’ When Failing Over an Availability Group Using SSMS <= 17.5
Here's a quickie that I've just stumbled across. I've just tried to initiate a manual failover of an availability group and received the following error. After a spot of head scratching and thinking that there was something wrong with my AG setup, it turns out that there's a bug in SSMS. I was running SSMS... Continue Reading →
UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: Find Untrusted Foreign Keys and Orphaned Key data
SQL Server tracks untrusted Foreign keys in sys.Foreign keys with a column called is_not_trusted, there may be a number of reasons why a Foreign key may have become untrusted below are a couple of examples: Foreign key was disabled using the 'NOCHECK' option then re-enabled using 'CHECK' (not to be confused with 'WITH CHECK') Foreign key was... Continue Reading →
View your Failover Cluster from the DMV’s
Just a quick post this time , I was fumbling around the DMV's the other day looking for a specific Availability group DMV that I just couldn't remember the name of - I think we have all been there before with some of the DMV names! 🙂 Whilst I was combing through various combinations of... Continue Reading →
Using SQLCMD Mode for Always On Availability housekeeping.
One way i tend to query multiple servers in one go is to use Registered servers, but there are times when I might need to run something against a specific set of servers which i do not have a Registered servers group for, or maybe i need to select these servers dynamically. Maybe i do... Continue Reading →
Snippets – A Couple of clicks to reduce repetitive typing.
I like finding ways of making things easier , recently I started toying with Snippets within SQL Server Management Studio to find that I could reduce the amount of repetitive typing that i regularly do for things such as calling store procedures. I will show you what I did, there may be other ways and... Continue Reading →
SQL Undercover 