Episode 248
| June 29, 2022
| 61 minutes
Inventory Documentation
How do you keep records of your SQL Server environments? Patching levels, security accounts, configuration options, maintenance jobs and the like are some of the pieces we have to keep organized. Are you using something besides Excel to keep up with this? Sure, we can use the Content Management Server (CMS) to query across several instances, but we still need to organize this information somewhere. Our guests for this episode, Sean and Jen McCown, discuss inventory challenges with us and why this information is important. We might also get into some new features of their software, Minion Enterprise. If you have a suggestion we didn’t discuss, please let us know!
Our Guests
Jennifer McCown
Jen McCown is a 20-year SQL Server DBA, Microsoft Certified Master, speaker, and CEO. 7 years ago she and Sean launched MinionWare LLC to build software that manages, audits, and maintains dozens or hundreds of SQL Server instances. She lives near Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado with Sean and the kids, and an actual menagerie of pets.
Book a chat with Jen at Calendly.com/JenniferMcCown, and connect on LinkedIn at Linkedin.com/in/JenniferMcCown. She is @MidnightDBA on Twitter.
Sean McCown
Sean McCown is a DBA, international speaker, and Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server with over 20 years of experience in high-end databases. He is also founder and co-owner of MinionWare LLC, creator and author of the wildly popular Minion Maintenance and Minion Enterprise tools.
SeanMcCown on Calendly and LinkedIn, @HeyMinionWare on Twitter.
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Meet the Hosts
Carlos Chacon
With more than 10 years of working with SQL Server, Carlos helps businesses ensure their SQL Server environments meet their users’ expectations. He can provide insights on performance, migrations, and disaster recovery. He is also active in the SQL Server community and regularly speaks at user group meetings and conferences. He helps support the free database monitoring tool found at databasehealth.com and provides training through SQL Trail events.
Eugene Meidinger
Eugene works as an independent BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and the Azure Data Platform. He has been working with data for over 8 years and speaks regularly at user groups and conferences. He also helps run the GroupBy online conference.
Kevin Feasel
Kevin is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and proprietor of Catallaxy Services, LLC, where he specializes in T-SQL development, machine learning, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL, president of the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group, and author of the books PolyBase Revealed (Apress, 2020) and Finding Ghosts in Your Data: Anomaly Detection Techniques with Examples in Python (Apress, 2022). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.
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