Pinal Dave - SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

12th Anniversary of SQL Authority – 4552nd Blog Post

November 1, 2018

Today is Anniversary of SQLAuthority and it completes 12 years and this is a 4552nd blog post. That means on average every year I have published around 379.3 blog posts a year.

12 years ago on November 1st, 2018, when I started this blog, I had no idea where I will end up but I must confess, it is a pretty decent ride so far. There are earlier many blog posts, I have shared my story, so I am not going to re-write it why did I start the blog. However, let me take a moment and talk about the future of the blog.

SQL SERVER – Disable IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio

October 31, 2018

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Intellisense, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

Just another day, I received an email from a user who has over 350 thousand tables in a single database. He was my earlier customer of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. He was facing indeed a very strange issue where his metadata table was locking up and we fixed that by disabling IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio.

SQL SERVER – XML Document Could Not be Created Because Server Memory is Low. Use sp_xml_removedocument to release XML documents

October 30, 2018

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL XML

Most of my earnings come from my role as SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization consultant. Every single day I work with few customers so that I can maintain the quality of my work with each of them. As you can imagine, I face new challenges and learn new ways to tune SQL Server. In this blog post, we will discuss an error XML document could not be created because server memory is low. Use sp_xml_removedocument to release XML documents.

SQL SERVER – Parallelism for Heap Scan

October 29, 2018

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

Clustered Index, Parallel, SQL CPU, SQL Heap, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Every consulting engagement is different and I enjoy interacting with different people while I am working with different experts. Earlier this week, here is what I heard during one of the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagement about Parallelism for Heap Scan.

What is Read Ahead Read in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #197

October 28, 2018

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Execution Plan, SQL Memory, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: What is Read Ahead Read in SQL Server?

Answer: This is SQL Server’s feature which brings data pages into the buffer cache.

SQL SERVER – Finding Compression Ratio of Backup

October 27, 2018

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Backup, SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked if there is any way to know compression ration of backup if we enable compressed backup settings in SQL Server.

SQL Authroity News – Optimizing Lazy Spool – PASS Blog

October 26, 2018

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Index, SQL PASS, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

I will be presenting a day-long pre-conference at SQLPASS on the topic – 21 Essential Scripts: Jump-Start Performance Tuning for Accidental DBAs and regular session as well. Lots of people are asking me what I will be covering in the session, so I have decided to give sneak preview about it on the blog of PASS.