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Jan6

SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL Server: One Step at a Time – SQL Server Magazine

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
12 Comments
I am glad to announce that along with SQLAuthority.com, I will be blogging on the prominent site of SQL Server Magazine. My association with SQL Server Magazine has been quite long, I have written nearly 7 to 8 SQL Server articles for the print magazine and it has been a…
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Jan5

SQL SERVER – Copy Statistics from One Server to Another Server

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Statistics
18 Comments
I was recently working on a performance tuning project in Dubai (yeah I was able to see the tallest tower from the window of my work place). I had a very interesting learning experience there. There was a situation where we wanted to receive the schema of original database from…
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Jan4

SQL SERVER – Unused Index Script – Download

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Download, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
60 Comments

Performance Tuning is quite interesting and Index plays a vital role in it. A proper index can improve the performance and a bad index can hamper the performance. Here is the script from my script bank, which I use to identify unused indexes on any database. Let us see script for unused index.

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Jan3

SQL SERVER – Missing Index Script – Download

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Download, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
92 Comments

Performance Tuning is quite interesting and Index plays a vital role in it. A proper index can improve the performance and a bad index can hamper the performance. In this blog post we will discuss about Missing Index.

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Jan2

SQL SERVER – Reduce the Virtual Log Files (VLFs) from LDF file

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, VLF
14 Comments
Earlier, I wrote a quite note on SQL SERVER – Detect Virtual Log Files (VLF) in LDF. Because of this I got responses suggesting too many VLFs are bad for log file. This prompts to a simple question: “How many is ‘too many’ VLFs?” I suggest that you go and read…
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Jan1

SQLAuthority News – Resolution for New Year 2011

Pinal Dave
Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
12 Comments
Today is the first day of the year so I want to write something very light. Last Year: 2010 Last Year was a blast; really traveled a lot. My family and I went on vacation. There I enjoyed being father, rolling on the floor and playing with my daughter. Here…
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Dec31

SQLAuthority News – Community Service and Public Speaking Engagements

Pinal Dave
Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQLAuthority Book Review
3 Comments
Today is the last day of the year and I was going over my memories for year 2010. Almost all of them are good and I feel for sure better person in terms of knowledge, nature and overall human being. Looking back at the year, it is very satisfying as…
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SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL Server: One Step at a Time – SQL Server Magazine

SQL SERVER – Copy Statistics from One Server to Another Server

SQLAuthority News - Community Service and Public Speaking Engagements unusedIndex-800x302

SQL SERVER – Unused Index Script – Download

SQLAuthority News - Community Service and Public Speaking Engagements missingIndex-800x302

SQL SERVER – Missing Index Script – Download

SQL SERVER – Reduce the Virtual Log Files (VLFs) from LDF file

SQLAuthority News – Resolution for New Year 2011

SQLAuthority News – Community Service and Public Speaking Engagements

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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.

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.

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