SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Jan1

SQL SERVER – Which Settings Change in sp_configure Needs Restart to Take Effect?

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Configuration, Starting SQL

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Learning one new thing every day keeps me passionate about my job. Recently, I had a very interesting experience with one of my customer while working with them on Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check and found some non-default values in sp_configure. They asked me – Which settings change in sp_configure needs restart to take effect? Do we need to remember the values?

Dec31

SQL SERVER – Installation Failure – Specified Instance Via Transform is Already Installed. MSINEWINSTANCE Requires a New Instance that is not Installed

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Documentation, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Installation

This is one of the situations where my client installed one clustered instance of SQL Server and the second one was failing. In this blog, I would share my findings of error: Specified instance via transform is already installed. MSINEWINSTANCE requires a new instance that is not installed.

Dec30

How to Sort a Varchar Column Storing Integers with Order By? – Interview Question of the Week #206

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Datatype, SQL Order By, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

Question: How to Sort a Varchar Column Storing Integers with Order By?

Dec29

SQL SERVER – Measuring the Length of VARCHAR and NVARCHAR Columns with COL_LENGTH

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Column, SQL Datatype, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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I love my job because I get to help people learn new technology as well as help them clear their confusion about the older technology. Recently during SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop, I was asked a very simple but interesting question by an attendee about NVARCHAR column.

Dec28

SQL SERVER – How to Count a Particular Value Across All Columns?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Column, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

This question came up in the recent SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop. During the workshop, I have answer questions of users during lunch break. One of the users had a very interesting scenario where he had to change one of their employee’s email address for technical reasons but before he changes that he needed to count in every single place where the email exists. I have simulated the same situation in this blog post and we will see how we can count a particular value across all the columns of the table.

Dec27

SQL SERVER – Cluster Install Failure – Code 0x84cf0003 – Updating Permission Setting for Folder Failed

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Audit, SQL Backup, SQL Error Messages, SQL Restore, SQL Server, Starting SQL

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There are various issues which I have seen SQL installation and most of the time they are intuitive. The error message is mostly helpful and provides the right direction. In this blog we would discuss error Updating permission setting for folder failed:

Dec26

SQL Server – Find Distinct Result Sets Using EXCEPT Operator

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Operator, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

In my earlier post on “SQL SERVER – Remove Duplicate Rows Using UNION Operator”, I showed a different method of removing duplicate rows from the result set using a UNION operator. Here is another similar method using EXCEPT operator to find distinct results.

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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