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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For SQL Server Emergency Help, you can reach out to me at pinal@sqlauthority.com with words URGENT in the email subject line for other services mention “Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check“.

Nov3

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start Service SQLSERVERAGENT on Server (mscorlib)

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, Starting SQL

There are several reasons for the error mentioned in the blog title. In this blog, we would learn about one of the causes of error Unable to start service SQLSERVERAGENT on a server.

Nov2

SQL SERVER – You Are Not Logged on as the Database Owner or System Administrator

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Documentation, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

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Every day I spend a good amount of time with my regular and new clients, helping them with SQL Server Performance Tuning issues. Today, in this blog, I will discuss a situation faced where I was engaged in Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. I saw below message on client’s SSMS while he was trying to create a table – You are not logged on as the database owner or system administrator.

Nov1

12th Anniversary of SQL Authority – 4552nd Blog Post

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

Personal Technology, SQL Milestone

Today is Anniversary of SQLAuthority and it completes 12 years and this is a 4552nd blog post. That means on average every year I have published around 379.3 blog posts a year.

12 years ago on November 1st, 2018, when I started this blog, I had no idea where I will end up but I must confess, it is a pretty decent ride so far. There are earlier many blog posts, I have shared my story, so I am not going to re-write it why did I start the blog. However, let me take a moment and talk about the future of the blog.

Oct31

SQL SERVER – Disable IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Intellisense, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

Just another day, I received an email from a user who has over 350 thousand tables in a single database. He was my earlier customer of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. He was facing indeed a very strange issue where his metadata table was locking up and we fixed that by disabling IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio.

Oct30

SQL SERVER – XML Document Could Not be Created Because Server Memory is Low. Use sp_xml_removedocument to release XML documents

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL XML

Most of my earnings come from my role as SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization consultant. Every single day I work with few customers so that I can maintain the quality of my work with each of them. As you can imagine, I face new challenges and learn new ways to tune SQL Server. In this blog post, we will discuss an error XML document could not be created because server memory is low. Use sp_xml_removedocument to release XML documents.

Oct29

SQL SERVER – Parallelism for Heap Scan

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

Clustered Index, Parallel, SQL CPU, SQL Heap, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Every consulting engagement is different and I enjoy interacting with different people while I am working with different experts. Earlier this week, here is what I heard during one of the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagement about Parallelism for Heap Scan.

Oct28

What is Read Ahead Read in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #197

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Execution Plan, SQL Memory, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: What is Read Ahead Read in SQL Server?

Answer: This is SQL Server’s feature which brings data pages into the buffer cache.

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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