SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Is your SQL Server running slow and you want to speed it up without sharing server credentials? In my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we can work together remotely and resolve your biggest performance troublemakers in less than 4 hours.

Once you learn my business secrets, you will fix the majority of problems in the future.

Have you ever opened any PowerPoint deck when you face SQL Server Performance Tuning emergencies? SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop is my MOST popular training with no PowerPoint presentations and 100% practical demonstrations.

Essentially I share my business secrets to optimize SQL Server performance.

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For SQL Server Emergency Help, you can reach out to me at pinal@sqlauthority.com with words URGENT in the email subject line for other services mention “Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check“.

Jul23

AI: Nobody’s in There. Free if You Cannot Pay. Not Free if You Can.

AI: Nobody’s in There is free to read at pinaldave.com if money is tight, and worth buying if you can. 30 deeply human essays on AI, love, and loss.

Jul22

AI: Nobody’s in There, and That Is Good News

AI: Nobody’s in There is 30 short, honest essays on judgment, learning, and work with AI. No hype, no doom, and why the empty machine is good news.

Jul21

Database Performance Health Check: Six Months Slow, Fixed in 75 Minutes

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, SQL Wait Stats

Six months of slow SQL, fixed in 75 minutes. See what a database performance health check finds, and how one focused 4-hour session ends the guessing.

Jul20

Data Quality and Observability: A Field Guide in Six Parts

Master data quality and observability in six parts: name the problem, rank the risk, define rules, place controls, monitor for drift, and respond calmly.

Jul17

You Just Found Bad Data in Production. Now What?

Found bad data in production? Use this data incident response playbook: triage, contain, trace the source, fix, verify, tell people, and review calmly.

Jul16

It Passed Every Test and Still Broke: Four Signals Validation Never Catches

Every test passed and the dashboard still broke. Data pipeline monitoring catches what row rules miss: freshness, volume, schema drift, distribution shift.

Jul15

Where Should a Data Quality Check Live? Gates, Controls, and Quarantine

A check in the wrong place catches bad data too late. See where data quality checks belong: ingestion, transformation, release gates, and quarantine.

Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 18 SQL Server database books and 117 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is also a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1) and CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2).

Nupur Dave is a social media enthusiast and an independent consultant. She primarily focuses on the database domain, helping clients build short and long-term multi-channel campaigns to drive leads for their sales pipeline.

Shaivi Pinalkumar Dave is a book author and a women’s artistic gymnast.