Minion Reindex 1.1 Release (and re-release)

We released Minion Reindex version 1.1 last week. The changes are fairly small:

  • Made sure Minion Reindex handles all nonstandard naming (e.g., object names with spaces or special characters).
  • Added support for Availability Group replicas. (Basic AG support has been added by only permitting Minion Reindex to run on an AG Primary DB.)
  • Fixed formatting in Minion.Help stored procedure.
  • If you run the installation script in a database other than master, this will now automatically be reflected in the Minion Reindex jobs. (The documents still say that you have to change this manually…I need to update that…)

But, and this is important, if you downloaded Minion Reindex 1.1 before this blog post hit, you need to re-download it. Yep, Jen messed up. I posted an earlier, incomplete version of the 1.1 package, and so introduced a syntax error.  As of now, this is fixed. (My delicious dish of crow is in the oven, almost ready to eat.)

We timed the release to coincide with Grant Fritchey’s review of Minion Reindex, which has sparked a fantastic discussion in the comments.

So, once you download the fresh, non-syntaxy version of Minion Reindex 1.1, you can chime in and let us know how you feel!