This stat is one of the coolest things you’ll see in Minion Reindex.

Gathering fragmentation stats in large databases can take a long time and you have no insight into what’s going on.

With Live Insight, Minion Reindex allows you to see what’s going on every step of the way, including how many indexes you have left to gather stats on.

And we even give you the name of the table and index that’s currently having its stats gathered.  (Our reindexing operations aren’t black boxes. I use this almost every day and I honestly don’t know what we ever did without it.)

NOTE: This feature is turned on by default. Just in case you’ve accidentally turned it off, just make sure that for the current database you have LogProgress = 1 in the Minion.IndexSettingsDB table.

Live Insight…by specific table

It gets even better. You may not be interested in Live Insight for every table.

In this case you can turn off Live Insight for certain tables, or turn it off for an entire database and then turn it on only for certain tables.

This is just one of the many useful features we have in our log.

And don’t forget: you can configure at the database level specifically or use the default DB settings by configuring the MinionDefault database in the Minion.IndexSettingsDB table.

I hope this helps you configure and use Minion Reindex better.