These five SQL tools are essential for 2020
The tech world is just beginning to adapt to the “new normal”, and we’re all adjusting. Your best toolkit for 2020 will include these five downloads, which you should get and install *today*.
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This just in: Managing disk space is a pain
Minion Enterprise solves these three major pain points for disk space management: data collection, alerting, and projecting. Now it takes minutes, not hours!
Webinar: Audit SQL Server Security!
The webinar “Audit SQL Server Security” has passed. Watch the recording here! You can also contact our team at Sales@MinionWare.net for questions, personalized demos, and a trial. SQL Server audits come in many forms. There’s the basic inventory, “what exactly do we have and what versions?” audit, for general use and SQL Server licensing. Recurring security audits, …
When was my last backup / CheckDB / index maintenance?
Keep a good eye on your backup and maintenance; they’re kind of important to the health and well-being of your job wait I mean SQL Server instances. So how do we go about this? Well, there’s the easiest way – you knew I’d be mentioning Minion Enterprise, right? – and then there’s the hard way. The easiest way If you have Minion …
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Databases need more than performance monitoring
There is more to databases than performance monitoring. So why are the most popular DBA tools, performance monitoring tools? They don’t even begin to cover the vast majority of DBA responsibilities. What we need is environment monitoring.
Five minutes to freedom: Installing Minion Enterprise
Get your repo server, your Minion Enterprise download, and your license key (trial or permanent). Install and config take just five minutes, and your entire enterprise is in order.
Minion Enterprise Trial Newsletter
This is the 13 part newsletter series for users of Minion Enterprise, the SQL Server management solution. 1 – Index Stats In this introductory newsletter: Pointing out what “Quick Start” sections to walk through to complete your ME setup Introducing the Collector schema, which holds all the goodies Your first module: Index Stats, which allows you to research …
ME Trial 13 – Last one!! Work like a DBA.
A quick glance behind, and ahead It’s the final email of yourMinion Enterprise trial information series! So last time, we introduced the AD Group Members module, and the Login Access Method Audit utility. This time we’re actually not going to look at a specific module. Today, we’re just going to talk a bit. “Work like …
ME Trial 12 – AD Group Members and Login Access Method Audit utility
A quick glance behind, and ahead So last time, we introduced the Objects, Tables, and Columns modules. This time we’ll look at the AD Group Members module, and the related Login Access Method Audit utility. This is one collection that we are super, totally, and completely in love with. The AD Group Members Module It …
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ME Trial 11 – Objects, Tables, and Columns (and top 20 features!)
A quick glance behind, and ahead So last time, we introduced the Database Properties module, and had an op-ed on autogrow. This time we’ll look at the Objects, Tables, and Columns modules. These are three separate modules – with their own jobs, tables, and so on – but they’re similar enough to talk about together. …
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