You’ve heard me talk about this many times, in so many different ways, but it’s worth repeating: SQL maintenance lifecycles are important.
People who disagree, disagree because they spend too much time firefighting and don’t have time to really think about it. Don’t know anything about SQL maintenance lifecycles? Let’s touch on a couple of points…today, we’ll cover SQL backup.
SQL maintenance is a lifecycle, not an event! Read More »
Integrity checks have become more and more important over the years, as companies store more and more data. This data is absolutely critical, so when corruption happens, it can break a company. But in all but the smallest shops, running any kind of integrity check is all but completely useless. Unless you have Minion CheckDB.
Integrity Checks are Useless* Read More »
Let’s talk about some of the challenges that DBAs face when managing backups with Availability Groups. Then we’ll talk about solving these issues with Minion Backup.
Managing Backup Issues in Availability Groups Read More »
Today I’d like to talk about two topics that get overlooked quite often, the “backups” to the backup, so to speak. First up: proper backup alerting. And second, missing backup recovery.
Proper Backup Alerting Read More »
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.
Announcing Minion CheckDB release date! Read More »
Many IT shops need multiple copies of a backup saved to multiple locations, for disaster recovery, or for testing and quality assurance. Here we discuss the difference between backup mirror and copy, and explain how to implement each in Minion Backup.
Back up databases to multiple locations Read More »
It’s easy to backup the ResourceDB with Minion Backup. And while it’s not a setting (yet), it only takes one step. Here, we show you exactly how to do it.
Backup the ResourceDB with Minion Backup Read More »
We released Minion Backup 1.2 (our Free SQL Server Backup utility) this week! We’ve got a some outstanding new features, and of course a number of bug fixes to tell you about.
The new Minion Backup 1.2: DB groups, scheduling options, and more! Read More »
We’ve written and released a good, simple missing backup report, together with a sample job you can use to alert you on missing Minion Backup backups!
New Community Zone script: Minion Backup alerts! Read More »
The Minion backup and maintenance modules are free, and completely open. So it’s really easy for our target audience (DBAs) to write their own queries, alerts, reports, and whatever else they could possibly need. And now, they can share those solutions online at the MinionWare Community Zone. We can’t wait to see what’s next!
Share custom solutions in the MinionWare Community Zone Read More »