As they say – There are more ways than one to skin a cat. In this blog we will find another method to fix an error which you might see during SQL upgrades – Cannot drop the assembly ‘ISSERVER’, because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
What is Consolidation of Index? – Interview Question of the Week #212
Question: What is Consolidation of Index?
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.
SQL SERVER – Find Out Current Language of the Session
After reading my post SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Playing with DateTime with Customer Data, one of my blog readers asked me “How to find out the current language setting of the session?”
Visual Studio – FIX: The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ Package Did Not Load Correctly
I am not sure what changes I made in one of my Virtual Machine, but I was running into an issue. In this blog, we would discuss how to fix error “The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ package did not load correctly” while launching Visual Studio.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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