SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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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Feb28

SQL SERVER – How to Drop All the Hypothetical Indexes of Database?

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

Earlier I wrote a blog post SQL SERVER – Say No To Database Engine Tuning Advisor and I got an email from my existing client where I frequently engage for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. They wanted me to help them remove all the negative impact of the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA). I was able to help them achieve this by removing the Hypothetical Indexes they had added using the DTA.

Feb27

SQL SERVER – SQL Service Not Getting Started Automatically After Server Reboot While Using gMSA Account

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Security, SQL Server Services

This was the first experiment with gMSA account in my lab and I faced an interesting issue. In my lab environment, I have a complete domain server and member servers. Once I configured gMSA for SQL Server service and restarted the machine, SQL Service didn’t start automatically even though it was set for an automatic startup as shown below.

Feb26

SQL SERVER – Error: 18456, State 149 – Login-based Server Access Validation Failed With an Infrastructure Error. Login Lacks Connect Endpoint Permission

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, , SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Sometimes while reproducing a situation results in another new error and I get an idea for a new blog. In this blog we would talk about an error Login-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error. Login lacks connect endpoint permission.

Feb25

SQL SERVER – FIX: 3637 – A Parallel Operation Cannot be Started From a DAC Connection

Pinal Dave

SQL

Parallel, SQL Backup, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

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This was indeed one of an interesting error which I have never seen earlier and it is about DAC Connection.

Here is the complete error message which my client reported.

Feb24

How to Extract Alphanumeric Only From A String? – Interview Question of the Week #214

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Data Type, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

Question: How to Extract Alphanumeric Only From A String?

Feb23

Early Bird Pricing – SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE – April 23, 2019

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Training

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There are only 6 days to sign up for the early bird pricing for SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE – April 23, 2019. The class is very first only class and will not be offered again in the first quarter. Last year when I offered the class, I had received rave reviews for the class, however, we closed the class at the end of last year. However, there has been a lot of requests to offer the class again and I have decided to offer this class on April 23, 2019.

Feb22

SQL SERVER – Upgrade Error – Cannot Drop the Assembly ‘ISSERVER’, Because it Does not Exist or You Do Not Have Permission

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

A few days back, I published the blog on the same error message and one of the blog reader responded and ask how can I generate the script if I don’t have another SQL Server? In this blog, we would learn how to fix error Cannot drop the assembly ‘ISSERVER’, because it does not exist or you do not have permission.

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 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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