Sean McCown's guest appearances

Sean McCown

SQL Server Radio

Robert Davis

Steve Jones

Kevin Kline

Richard Campbell

Alex Yates

Thomas LaRock

Itzik Ben-Gan

Kenneth Fisher

William Durkin

Brent Ozar

Carlos Bossy

Boris Hristov

Pieter Vanhove

Bradley Ball

Lior King

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A few months ago we hosted Sean McCown for a talk about indexing tips and backup performance. On this show, we have Sean again. Sean reveals tons of backup tips and tricks while talking about his new free product, Minion Backup. Among other topics, we talk about:  What are VLF’s and why it’s not good to have many of them When you SHOULD use shrink Why Sean doesn’t like Policy Based Management How to monitor backup progress Regular Expressions in SSMS  And as always with our guests, we play Scattergories, and Sean tells a VERY interesting story about cluster configuration. Items mentioned in the show:  Minion Backup Sean’s PASS Summit session – Monster Text Manipulation: Regular Expressions for the DBA Sean’s PASS Summit precon – The Enterprise Scripting Workshop    About Sean: Sean McCown is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server 2008. He is also a SQL Server MVP with over 20 years experience in databases. Sean is also founder and co-owner of the renowned website MidnightDBA.com where he records free SQL Server training videos and co-hosts the popular webshow, DBAs@Midnight.

A few months ago we hosted Sean McCown for a <a href="http://www.sqlserverradio.com/sean-mccown/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">talk about indexing tips and backup performance</a>. On this show, we have Sean again. Sean reveals tons of backup tips and tricks while talking about his new free product, <a href="http://minionware.net/backup/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Minion Backup</a>. Among other topics, we talk about: <ul> <li>What are VLF’s and why it’s not good to have many of them</li> <li>When you SHOULD use shrink</li> <li>Why Sean doesn’t like Policy Based Management</li> <li>How to monitor backup progress</li> <li>Regular Expressions in SSMS</li> </ul> And as always with our guests, we play Scattergories, and Sean tells a VERY interesting story about cluster configuration. Items mentioned in the show: <ul> <li><a href="http://minionware.net/backup/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Minion Backup</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2015/Sessions/Details.aspx?sid=8461" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sean’s PASS Summit session – Monster Text Manipulation: Regular Expressions for the DBA</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2015/Sessions/Details.aspx?sid=8669" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sean’s PASS Summit precon – The Enterprise Scripting Workshop</a></li> </ul>   About Sean: Sean McCown is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server 2008. He is also a SQL Server MVP with over 20 years experience in databases. Sean is also founder and co-owner of the renowned website <a href="http://MidnightDBA.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MidnightDBA.com</a> where he records free SQL Server training videos and co-hosts the popular webshow, DBAs@Midnight.

Show 28 – Backups, Scripting and Regular Expressions with Sean McCown

On show 18, we host Sean McCown, a.k.a Midnight DBA. We start the show with some tips about working from home without hurting your productivity. We then take a deep dive into two of Sean’s favorite topics: Reindexing and backup performance. Sean shares quite a few tips regarding the two topics, and takes us into the bits and bytes of his new free maintenance solution, Minion Reindex. About Sean: Sean McCown is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server 2008. He is also a SQL Server MVP with over 20 years experience in databases. Sean is also founder and co-owner of the renowned website MidnightDBA.com where he records free SQL Server training videos and co-hosts the popular webshow, DBAs@Midnight.

On show 18, we host Sean McCown, a.k.a Midnight DBA. We start the show with some tips about working from home without hurting your productivity. We then take a deep dive into two of Sean’s favorite topics: Reindexing and backup performance. Sean shares quite a few tips regarding the two topics, and takes us into the bits and bytes of his new free maintenance solution, <a href="http://www.midnightsql.com/Minion/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Minion Reindex</a>. About Sean: Sean McCown is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server 2008. He is also a SQL Server MVP with over 20 years experience in databases. Sean is also founder and co-owner of the renowned website <a href="http://MidnightDBA.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MidnightDBA.com</a> where he records free SQL Server training videos and co-hosts the popular webshow, DBAs@Midnight.

Show 18 – Sean McCown