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Jul29

Winners and Solution – DELETE Qualified Rows From Multiple Tables

Pinal Dave
SQL Puzzle
SQL Scripts, SQL Server
2 Comments

As the price of this class high, I wanted to keep my contest difficult as well. Today we will see the winners and solutions.

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Jul28

How to Remove Quotes of QUOTENAME? – Interview Question of the Week #235

Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String
No Comments

Question: How to Remove Quotes of QUOTENAME? I received based on my yesterday’s blog post SQL SERVER – QUOTENAME Function and Custom Quote Character.

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Jul27

SQL SERVER – QUOTENAME Function and Custom Quote Character

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String
1 Comment

The question was really not related to SQL Server Performance Tuning but DBA wanted to know if they can use any custom Quote Character for their string.

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Jul26

SQL SERVER – Number of Rows Read Per Threads in Parallel Operations

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Execution Plan, Parallel, SQL CPU, SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS
1 Comment

Question received via email: The question was about is there any way to know how many rows each thread execute in parallel operations.

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Jul25

SQL SERVER – Query Specific Wait Statistics and Performance Tuning

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Resource Governor, SQL Memory, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Wait Stats, SSMS
No Comments

After a quick research we figured out the issue was with memory requirement for their query and we used to query specific wait statistics.

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Jul24

SQL SERVER – Performance Impact of Unique Index

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SSMS
4 Comments

In the latest Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagement, we had a very interesting situation of Performance Impact of Unique Index.

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Jul23

SQL Authority News – SysAdminDay – System Administrator Appreciation Day

Pinal Dave
SQLAuthority News
DBA, SQL Milestone
No Comments

System Administrator Appreciation Day or SysAdminDay is celebrated on the last Friday in July. History says the celebration started in the year 2000.

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SQL SERVER – Fix: Error 15372 Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance – The connection will be closed

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SQL SERVER – Performance Counters from System Views – By Kevin Mckenna

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Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 22 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 104 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).


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Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check

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.


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