We’re a large household with a small business, and we find ourselves with an interesting mix of tools for chat, screen sharing, and video conferencing. Here are our favorites! Work Life The tools we use for work include TweetDeck, Teams, Skype, and GoToMeeting. TweetDeck I’ve been connecting with other IT professionals on Twitter since 2009. …
“We have SQL Server version 20 years ago, and it runs fine. So what’s the problem? Why should we upgrade it?” The short answer is that the more your SQL Server is out of date, the more things become⦁ vulnerable,⦁ broken and unfixable,⦁ limited in features, and⦁ expensive. Vulnerable “Vulnerability = liability.” -Anon Older versions …
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T-SQL Still beats the GUI 👊 The SQL Server Management Studio makes a lot of operations very simple. Creating a database takes three clicks. A new login is a minimum of two clicks. So why is it that we at MinionWare still write T-SQL over 90% of the time, instead of using the GUI? We …
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*.
We’re gifting you a few good things: MinionWare Office Hours, free enterprise software, and free things out in the wild. Plus pictures of puppies.
Minion Enterprise solves these three major pain points for disk space management: data collection, alerting, and projecting. Now it takes minutes, not hours!
Minion Maintenance has some seriously thorough documentation, but some weeks you don’t have time to read the darn manual. When it comes to backups, CheckDB operations, and index maintenance, you just want it to WORK. So here’s the “just make it go!” guide to Minion Maintenance! Don’t have Minion Maintenance? Download! Download the latest Minion …
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, …
Contact our team at Sales@MinionWare.net for questions, demos, and trials. Databases aren’t well understood by folks outside of the data professional world. SQL Server especially has a nice-looking interface, which makes database administration look easy. It isn’t easy. So how does a small DBA team manage an enterprise of ten, or a hundred, or 500 …
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We’re going to set up backup, DBCC CheckDB, and index maintenance for 5 servers in 10 minutes. Note that doing the same thing for 50 servers would take the same amount of time! Why do backups and CheckDB and index maintenance? Backups make a copy of the data or log records. This is vital for …