Finding the Primary Replica of an Availability Group
This is going to be a bit of a quick post but one about something that I see coming up time and time again on SQL Undercover’s search terms....
2019-10-24
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Undercover TV Podcast – Intent Locks
The first of our new series of new look podcasts, David has a look at intent locks in SQL Server and what the purpose of them is.
2019-10-18 (first published: 2019-10-14)
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We Thought That Sean McCown’s SMO Tutorial Was So Good, It Needed To Be A Video In It’s Own Right
Back in February, Sean McCown joined us on the Undercover podcast and presented a brilliant tutorial on the SMO. We thought that it was so good that we’ve decided...
2019-10-01
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SQL Tuesday #118 – Your Fantasy SQL Feature
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...
2019-09-09
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sp_RestoreScript 1.6 Release – @Credential Added For Backups In Azure BLOB Storage
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,...
2019-08-29
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Get All Database Snapshots and Their Parent Databases On A SQL Server
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...
2019-08-15
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sp_RestoreScript 1.5 Release
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...
2019-08-12
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Intent Locks In SQL Server
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...
2019-07-25
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Error: ‘misaligned log IOs which required falling back to synchronous IO’ And Slow AG Synchronisation
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...
2019-07-22 (first published: 2019-07-08)
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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...
2019-07-17 (first published: 2019-07-03)
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Question of the Day
Function Defaults
I have created this function in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AddInt (@one INT, @two INT = 1) RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
RETURN @one + @two
END
How can I call this and invoke the default value for @two? See possible answers