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Jan3

Last week, I attended the last interview of the year. One of my co-interviewer asked a coding question to the candidate. In this type of question, the candidate is given one hour with SQL Server with a help file. The computer does not have internet candidate can use all the…

Jan2

SQL SERVER – Script: Finding Cumulative IO Per Database File

Sharing SQL Server related scripts is something I tend to do from time to time. At the SQLPass one of the attendees for my session around 42 tips asked, if I have any script that is handy to find the IO utilization per database file because they had couple of…

Jan1

SQL SERVER – FIX: SQLServerAgent is not currently running so it cannot be notified of this action. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 22022)

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Error Messages

Getting error and finding the cause is something which I like. And off late over the blogs I have shared a number of such incidents that have helped me figure out stuffs all by myself. Of course, I do my research and more often than not make things complicated because…

Dec31

SQL SERVER – Are You Suffering from Unknown SSAS Performance Challenges? – Notes from the Field #109

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore, SSAS

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. We build our business application with zeal and enthusiasm. We believe it will do well for many years but it is not the case always. After a while performance started to go down and everything is not…

Dec30

SQL Server 2016 – Enhancements with TempDB

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2016, SQL TempDB

SQL Server 2016 is loaded with tons of new enhancements that I can’t get enough of it. I have been playing around with the bits since multiple CTP’s and it is getting difficult to catch up on all the releases coming so fast and the number of enhancements from performance and scalability point of view have been too many to track. Let us see in this blog post Enhancements with TempDB in SQL Server 2016.

Dec29

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Browser

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

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My laptop is exposed to the internet and I have a passion to learn new software. Due to this, sometimes, I download some random software (unknowingly malware) on my machine and end up in infecting my laptop with a virus. These are never intentional. I think I have written earlier…

Dec28

Geometry Datatype – Line String Behavior Enhancements

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

When I did the session at SQLPass about the 42 tips, I had included an interesting behavior I got when working with Geometry data types. When I was doing a session at a large SI location, one of the application developers walked up to me to say they were getting…

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.

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