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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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
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Undercover Catalogue 0.2 Hox Fix 2 and SQL2008r2/2008/possibly 2005 Compatibility Patch RELEASED
Undercover Catalogue 0.2.2 It looks like a bug has crept it’s way into the Undercover Catalogue. When running with certain versions of DBA Tools, a number of the modules...
2019-06-20
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To use ALTER DATABASE, the database must be in a writable state in which a checkpoint can be executed. – when moving files on an Availability Group secondary.
Here’s a little error that I stumbled across the other day when trying to migrate the data files of an Availability Group secondary node onto a nice new SAN....
2019-06-06
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Inspector V1.4 now available
The SQL Installation script can be found here The Inspector sample report has been updated here All of the below Git Issues can be found on the V1.4 Project...
2019-05-20
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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...
2019-05-09 (first published: 2019-04-29)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Database backup job steps
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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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The Large Encoded Value
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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