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Jun18

SQLAuthority News – Interview with SQL Server MVP Madhivanan – A Real Problem Solver

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
MVP
32 Comments
Madhivanan (SQL Server MVP) is a real community hero. He is known for his two skills – 1) Help Community and 2) Help Community. I have met him many times and every time I feel if anybody in online world needs help Madhivanan does his best to reach them out…
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Jun17

SQL SERVER – Data Pages in Buffer Pool – Data Stored in Memory Cache

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DMV, SQL Scripts
11 Comments
This will drop all the clean buffers so we will be able to start again from there. Now, run the following script and check the execution plan of the query. Have you ever wondered what types of data are there in your cache? During SQL Server Trainings, I am usually…
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Jun16

SQL SERVER – Find Largest Supported DML Operation – Question to You

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
Best Practices
3 Comments
SQL Server is very big and it is not possible to know everything in SQL Server but we all keep learning. Recently I was going over the best practices of transactions log and I come across following statement. The log size must be at least twice the size of largest…
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Jun15

SQL SERVER – Shrinking Database NDF and MDF Files

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Shrinking Database, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC
20 Comments

Previously, I had written a blog post about SQL SERVER. I am posting this blog post here about Shrinking Database.

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Jun14

SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL PASS, SQLAuthority Author Visit
3 Comments
June 11, 2010 was a wonderful day because I attended the very first SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch event held by Microsoft at Mumbai. I traveled to Mumbai from my home town, Ahmedabad. The event was located at one of the best hotels in Mumbai,”The Leela”. SQL Server R2 Launch…
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Jun13

SQL SERVER – What is Denali?

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
24 Comments
I see following question quite common on Twitter or in my email box. “What is Denali?” Denali is code name of SQL Server 2011. Here is the list of the code name of other versions of SQL Server. In 1988, Microsoft released its first version of SQL Server. It was…
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Jun12

SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 – WITH GETDATE

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts
7 Comments
Earlier I wrote blog post SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME which inspired me to write SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2. Now earlier two blog post inspired me to write this blog post (and 4 emails and 3 reads from readers). I previously populated DATETIME…
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How to Generate Random Password in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #181

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SQL SERVER – Backup to URL – Script to Generate the Create Credential and Backup Command using Access Keys

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SQL SERVER – Event ID:7034 – MSSQLSERVER Service Terminated Unexpectedly. It has Done this 6 time(s)

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Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Class Preparation and Setup

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Scalability and Availability Challenges and Shareplex Solutions

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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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