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.
Microsoft Certified Master Sean McCown has spent the last five or ten years blogging and ranting at MidnightDBA.com. We’ve compiled some of the best – worst? – rants in the FREE eBook “DBA Rants from a Microsoft Certified Master” for your amusement and perusal.
When you back up your database with a third-party party backup utility, you’re almost always stuck with their hard coded path structure and file names. But Minion Backup – our free SQL Server backup tool – gives you fully dynamic paths and file names. You can even programmatically change them based on any criteria. We call …
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So far, no one has found exercise to be beneficial to servers. Purposeless repetitive motion may be good for human muscles, but your SQL Server instance experiences no gain for the pain. Here’s a good example: taking useless backups. Let me explain…
Most of us love technology. And most of us have experienced how blindingly fast technology can provide some degree of cataclysmic failure. Especially when you start by saying, “I should go ahead and do that real quick…”
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Minion CheckDB will be available for download on February 1, 2017! In celebration, we’re having a Minion CheckDB webinar on Wednesday, February 1 and on Friday, February 3 at 12:00 PM.
If you’re lucky enough to have SQL Server 2016, go on and upgrade to SP1….you get extra-lucky special database snapshots in any version! Oh what’s that? You don’t use snapshots? Well let’s see a couple of good use cases for them.
Minion CheckDB is the third piece of our free backup and maintenance tools, rounding out the list with Minion Backup and Minion Reindex…and it’s coming in early 2017.
Set-based enterprise (n.) – An environment in which you can administer multiple servers as if they were one server. Minion Enterprise makes your shop into a set-based enterprise, and you’re going to love it.