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Is your SQL Server running slow and you want to speed it up without sharing server credentials? In my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we can work together remotely and resolve your biggest performance troublemakers in less than 4 hours.

Once you learn my business secrets, you will fix the majority of problems in the future.

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Essentially I share my business secrets to optimize SQL Server performance.

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SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure sp_datatype_info to Get Supported Data Types

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Data Type, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
1 Comment

I get to work with various different versions and environment when I am busy with my clients with Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. While I work with different customers often I forget what data type is supported by which version of SQL Server. Here is a small quick trick, I use all the time when I need to know what are the different data types supported by the version I am working with.

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SQL SERVER – Automatic Seeding of Availability Database ‘DB’ in Availability Group ‘AG’ Failed With an Unrecoverable Error

Pinal Dave
SQL
AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, SQL High Availability, SQL Server, SQL Wait Stats
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While deploying Always On Availability Group with a client, they found that when they use automatic seeding, the database was not shown on secondary. After digging more, we found that it was there earlier in “Restoring” state when seeding was in progress but then it automatically disappeared from the list of databases on secondary.  Here is the option in the wizard.

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SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to List Automatic Seeding of Always On Availability Group

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
AlwaysOn, SQL DMV, SQL High Availability, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
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I love blog post which just solves a simple point and immediately gets us the necessary answer. Recently during one of the consulting engagement Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check at one of my customer place we identified a wait statistics which was related to SQL Server Always On Availability Group. The wait statistics issue was VDI_CLIENT_OTHER and the way to solve is blogged here SQL SERVER – Many BACKGROUND Threads with Command VDI_CLIENT_WORKER. We needed to remove automatic seeding to reduce the said wait statistics.

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SQL SERVER – Getting Started with Accelerated Database Recovery – Instant Rollback

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2019, SQL Transactions, Transaction Log
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There are many reasons to envy my job as SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert Consultant but the most important reason is that I get to work on quite often the latest version of SQL Server. Just the other day I had an early adopter customer who was using SQL Server 2019 for their environment and they wanted me to help them with the new feature of Accelerated Database Recovery.

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SQL SERVER – Get Last Known Actual Execution Plan for a Previously Cached Query Plan

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Execution Plan, SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2019, TraceFlags
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This feature works with SQL Server 2019 and onwards. If you are using an earlier version of SQL Server this feature will not work and will give you an error. One of the most common questions I receive during Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is how to get the last known actual execution plan for a previously cached query plan.

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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 92 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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