Build Dynamic Backup Locations with Minion Backup
See how Minionware Backup gives you the ability to customize backup files and locations.
2017-05-03
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Introducing Minion CheckDB by MinionWare
Minion CheckDB completes the MinionWare maintenance and backups suite in style. Each solution is plug-and-play for the busy DBA, and deeply configurable for those shops with in-depth needs.
2017-02-01
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A Happy Birthday Present from Minionware
The Midnight DBAs and Minionware are having a birthday celebration. You can get your present of a free license today only.
2016-07-15
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The MidnightDBAs release Minion Backup
The MidnightDBA team is announcing the release of a new, free backup solution for SQL Server: Minion Backup. We created Minion Backup (or MB, for short) to be the most flexible, feature-rich backup solution possible.
2015-06-01
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Question of the Day for 31 Jan 2005
Comments posted to this topic are about the Question of the Day for 31 Jan 2005 posted at http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/testcenter/qod.asp?QuestionID=442.
2005-01-19
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RE: Avoiding row deletion with a trigger
An INSTEAD OF trigger should work. Check out "Designing INSTEAD OF Triggers" in BOL.
2004-12-27
RE: Whois lookup from stored procedure
To extend on Steve, here's a code snippet that might give you some ideasset nocount on declare @ip varchar(255), @cmd varchar(100) set @cmd = 'ping ' + HOST_NAME() create table #temptb (grabfield varchar(255)) insert into #temptb exec master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @cmd select @ip = substring(grabfield, charindex('[',grabfield)+1, charindex(']',grabfield)-charindex('[',grabfield)-1) from #temptb where left(grabfield,7) = 'Pinging' print @ip drop table […]
2004-10-28
DTS and Oracle
Is it possible to retrieve data from an Oracle database (using DTS) without installing an Oracle client at the SQL-Server database-server ?It works fine whit the Oracle client installed; but we would like to avoid the installation of Oracle-stuff on our SQL-Server database-server.
2004-07-19
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