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First Online Open for All Class: SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE – April 23, 2019

I have been delivering SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for various organizations and it has been an extremely popular class so far. I get lots of requesting that I should deliver it for individuals. The only reason, I never scheduled it for individuals was the content of the class was customized carefully for a specific organization. However, I believe it is time now when I can announce this class to everyone.

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SQL SERVER – Enabling Older Legacy Cardinality Estimation

Yesterday, I had a very interesting situation, one of our Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check client immediately called me on Skype with his entire server going continuously stopping due to a very toxic poison wait type of Resource Semaphore. Though, we had a good idea how to fix the wait type the real issue was the server was not staying up long enough to put us a patch in the system. It was extremely frustrating for us and finally, we were able to deploy the patch Enabling Older Legacy Cardinality Estimation.

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SQL SERVER – Availability Group Seen in SSMS but missing in Cluster Manager. What’s Wrong?

One of my existing clients has sent me an interesting question. In this blog, I would share one interesting situation where my client has created an availability group and it was visible in SSMS, but no role was visible in failover cluster manager.

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SQL SERVER – Say No To Database Engine Tuning Advisor

I have been using SQL Server for over 20 years and have been working on the focused area of SQL Server Performance Tuning for over 12 years. In recent time I have been very busy doing Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, and the client, I enjoy working the most is the one who has used in the past Database Engine Tuning Advisor.

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