The MidnightDBA team is announcing the release of a new, free backup solution for SQL Server: Minion Backup arrives on June 1! Minion Backup by MidnightDBA is a stand-alone database backup module. Once installed, Minion Backup automatically backs up all online databases on the SQL Server instance, and will incorporate databases as they are added or […]
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Announcing Minion Enterprise: the new SQL Server Management Solution
A company with more than one SQL Server instance has no built-in way to gather and report on maintenance, backup, and configuration data across those instances. Even more, there is no good way to push standardized settings out to the enterprise. The database administrator must spend a large amount of time to set up alerts and configure settings, and even then the […]
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 […]