Minion Enterprise

What Really Causes Performance Problems?

Articles, Minion Enterprise, Tech / Sean McCown

Every IT shop has its problems with performance: some localized, and some that span a server, or even multiple servers. Technologists tend to treat these problems as isolated incidents â€“ solving one, then another, and then another. This happens especially when a problem is recurring but intermittent. When a slowdown or error happens every so often, itâ€™s far too easy to lose the big picture.

Some shops suffer from these issues for years without ever getting to the bottom of it all. So, how can you determine what really causes performance problems?

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The set-based enterprise: a force multiplier for IT

Articles, Minion Enterprise / Jennifer McCown

Set-based enterprise (n.) â€“ An environment in which you can administer multiple servers as if they were one server. Minion Enterprise makes your shop into a set-based enterprise, and youâ€™re going to love it.

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A DBA’s first day on the job

2.0, 2.1, 2.2, Articles, Minion Enterprise / Jennifer McCown

Here we walk through a database administrator’s first day on the job – first without Minion Enterprise, and then with it! (Guess which day was more productive.)

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Minion Enterprise: SQL Version Number Update

2.2, Articles, Minion Enterprise / Jennifer McCown

Minion Enterprise gives you the ability to see what version of SQL Server each instance is on, and also what version they SHOULD be on. In this post, we explain the SQL Version table and how to update it.

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Share custom solutions in the MinionWare Community Zone

Articles, Minion Backup, Minion CheckDB, Minion Enterprise, Minion Reindex / Jennifer McCown

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!

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