sp_RestoreScript v1.4 – It’s Now Compatible with Case Sensitive Collations, Accepts Wild Cards in DB Names and Fixes A bug

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 →

Jul 15, 2019 0

sp_drivespace – See How Much Space You Have On Your Disks, Including Mount Points

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 →

Jul 3, 2019 1

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 →

Apr 29, 2019 1

Inspector V1.2 now available

It has been long overdue but finally V1.2 is now available on GitHub. V1.2 brings a lot of changes, We put together a sample report for you to play with but here is an overview of what has been added. Enhancements: #9 Long running transactions module added - A new setting has been added to [Inspector].[Settings]. This setting... Continue Reading →

Oct 10, 2018 2

Inspector revised installation guide

Pre-requisites: SQL 2012 or higher SQL Server Agent A database to store the the data collected by the agent jobs (this can be one you use for your other DBA needs it doesn’t have to be a dedicated database) Optional: For instances with availability groups where you take backups on the secondary replicas you will... Continue Reading →

Oct 10, 2018 1

Are your backup files where they say they are?

I was having a cleanup of some old scripts the other day when I stumbled upon a script I wrote some time ago. I remember writing the script because from time to time I would get asked if I can restore a copy of a specific database to a particular point in time... Continue Reading →

Jul 25, 2018 1

T-SQL Tuesday #104 – My Undercover Toolbox favourites

This months T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Bert Wagner , you can find the invitation for this months topic here. Bert has a great topic for this month, he wants us to write about code you’ve written that you would hate to live without. I have found the SQL server community to be extremely helpful... Continue Reading →

Jul 10, 2018 2

Resend an email sent from SQL Server using TSQL

Sometimes emails from SQL Server go missing, especially when you share an inbox with colleagues. On most occasions it doesn't always matter as the job that generated the email can simply be re ran to produce the email once again, but what about those emails that contain time specific information? we cannot simple just kick... Continue Reading →

Jun 5, 2018 3

T-SQL Tuesday #101 – My day of Essential SQL Server tools.

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to you by Jens Bestergaard - the subject is Essential SQL Server tools, the original invitation can be found here. Here is how my day of using SQL tools went: It all started at 00:00 this morning with planned maintenance, I was adding a bunch of Clustered indexes... Continue Reading →

Apr 10, 2018 0