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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SQL Undercover
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
17 reads
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
43 reads
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
75 reads
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
14 reads
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
648 reads
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 New Features Compatible with case sensitive collations Now accepts wild cards in the @DatabaseName string, (‘Database1,Database2,SQL%’)...
2019-07-15
212 reads
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)
2,657 reads
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)
813 reads
Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
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Renaming a Database
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