Share custom solutions in the MinionWare Community Zone
Since we released Minion Reindex over a year and a half ago, we’ve had a ton of wonderful feedback, praise, questions, and...
2016-06-07
629 reads
Jen McCown
Minion CheckDB Beta
Come meet Codex! We’ve had many of you asking to be part of the Minion CheckDB beta and now is...
2016-05-18
664 reads
See you Saturday in Houston!
Here’s your friendly neighborhood reminder to get free learnin’ at SQL Saturday Houston this weekend, where we’ll have the MinionWare booth, and sessions...
2016-05-12
509 reads
Easy SQL mistakes: Accidental Correlated Subquery
Just a fun note, because it was a moment of pure puzzlement for me. I’m writing a new SP for Minion Backup...
2016-04-25 (first published: 2016-04-18)
2,958 reads
XP_CmdShell isn’t Evil
Bonus summary: xp_cmdshell is limited to admins, unless you specifically grant permissions to users. And if you’re an admin, you have...
2016-04-14 (first published: 2016-04-09)
1,767 reads
Utility function: dbo.JobName(@job_id)
As often as I have to pull a job’s name based on its job_id in the MSDB system tables, I’m truly...
2016-04-08 (first published: 2016-03-28)
1,478 reads
Announcement: Backup(n.) vs Back Up(v.)
Let it be known that the word “backup” is a noun (it refers to a thing), and “back up” is a verb (it...
2016-04-07
512 reads
Catch The Enterprise Scripting Workshop in Orange County, Baton Rouge, Albany, or Atlanta this year!
Sean and I have put together our bazillion (read: like 30 combined) years of SQL Server DBA-ing into one big,...
2016-03-16
480 reads
Shrink a log file…AUTOMATICALLY?
Today let’s talk about shrinking log files, and Minion Backup – still totally & forever free – and how they go together. First...
2016-02-25 (first published: 2016-02-22)
2,620 reads
Well that’s just neat: Row Level Security, new in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 offers Row Level Security, which sounds awfully cool. It’s apparently been available in Azure for a while,...
2016-02-25
1,118 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Finding Motivation
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Finding Motivation
The Last Binary Value of the Year
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Last Binary Value of...
Question of the Day
The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
SELECT cast(0x2025 AS NVARCHAR(20))Image 1:
Image 2: 
Image 3: 
Image 4: 
See possible answers