Earlier this year, I presented at SQLPASS 2016, Seattle on SQL Server 2016 and I am very happy to see the feedback of my sessions. I have presented two sessions and I will write feedback of one session in this blog post and another one later this week. my session was about SQL Server 2016 Performance Tips and Tricks.
SQL Authority News – Download SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Microsoft has earlier released SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This particular SP1 is one of the kind service pack and I will say it is a milestone move by Microsoft.
Now with this SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1, Standard Edition will have many of the features which existed in only in Enterprise Edition. In simple words, now SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition will have many of the exclusive features of SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition after installation of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring Resource Online – Error – Could Not Find Any IP Address that this SQL Server Instance Depends Upon
When it rains, it pours. In the last few days last few contacts from my customers were for cluster related issues. Once again, the SQL Server resource was not coming online in failover cluster manager. I asked them to check if ERRORLOG is being generated and if yes, share the content. SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. Let us learn how to fix Unable to Bring Resource Online.
SQL SERVER – Analysis Services and the Network Performance
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is becoming increasingly popular as an OLAP platform for business analysts. Network Performance
SQL SERVER – FIX: Incorrect Syntax Near the Keyword ‘PROCEDURE’
Along with freelancing, consulting, I also spend time in replying to my blog comments to learn something new. Few such conversations end up in business deals, few in emails and few in the blog. This blog originates from one of such conversation regarding incorrect syntax.
How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database – Interview Question of the Week #097
Question: How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database?
SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine?
There are multiple ways by which we can find a list of SQL Server instances name instances on a machine. In this blog, I would show a few ways to do it.
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 14 SQL Server database books and 109 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.
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