In this video, David give a quick introduction into the Undercover Catalogue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw98wYN1R1g
Introducing The Undercover Catalogue
Undercover Catalogue 0.4.0 Released
We're pleased to announce the release of the Undercover Catalogue 0.4.0, (please see HERE for full details of the Catalogue). The new version brings with it a number of new features and enhancements. Centralisation The on of the main focuses of 0.4 is centralisation. The first major change that 0.4.0 brings is centralisation. With previous... Continue Reading →
Undercover Catalogue 0.3.0-Auditing and Change Tracking Comes to the Catalogue
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 →
Undercover Catalogue 0.2 Hox Fix 2 to Fix Breaking Changes with dbatools 1.0.0 & SQL2008r2/2008 Compatibility Patch RELEASED
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 →
Is Your Availability Group ‘REALLY’ Ready To Failover?
You know what it's like, you need to fail your AG over but is it safe to fail over? Perhaps you've clicked on 'failover' for the AG and there's a little green tick and no data loss reported... Or maybe you've checked out sys.dm_hadr_database_replica_cluster_states and 'is_failover_ready' is reporting a 1. So, you're cool to failover,... Continue Reading →
Undercover Catalogue 0.2.1, Fixes An Issue With The Recording Of Unicode And MAX Datatype Lengths
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 →
Undercover Catalogue 0.2 Released
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 →
Managing Logins and Users Across An Availability Group
What's the deal with logins and availability groups? I'm sure that we all, when creating a login that accesses a database that happens to be part of an availability group, diligently go and create that login on all secondary replicas, don't we?! Of course, when that AG fails over to another replica, we want to... Continue Reading →
Undercover Catalogue 0.1 Released
Easily Keep Track of All Your SQL Servers We know what it's like when you've got 101 SQL Servers to manage, or even just a couple. It can be almost impossible to keep track of all these servers, their versions, the databases that they host, permissions, dependencies... the list goes on. We developed the Undercover... Continue Reading →
