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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.

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SQL SERVER – Monitor Estimated Completion Times for Backup, Restore and DBCC Commands

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup, SQL DMV, SQL Restore, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC
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Earlier this week, we were fortunate to receive an amazing script to overview HADR / AlwaysOn Local Replicate server from SQL Server Expert Dominic Wirth. You can read the amazing script here: Scripts to Overview HADR / AlwaysOn Local Replica Server. As a follow up to the previous conversation today I received another extremely helpful script from Dominic Wirth which I will be using with my customers every single day. In this blog post, we will see the script which will Monitor Estimated Completion Times for Backup, Restore and DBCC Commands.

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Max Degree of Parallelism Settings and Slow Performance

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
MAXDOP, Parallel, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
5 Comments

My primary source of income for me is the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check for any application using SQL Server. Recently, I was hired by a large organization which was struggling with the poor performance of their Microsoft Dynamics CRM. They had recently upgraded their SQL Server to the latest version of SQL Server and were facing slow queries, slow loading of the pages as well as white screens in the applications.

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SQL SERVER – Microsoft Azure – Unable to Find Higher Tier Series Virtual Machine to Upgrade

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
AlwaysOn, SQL Azure, SQL Error Messages, SQL High Availability, SQL Server, Virtualization
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With current market trends of cloud shifting, many of my clients have moved their SQL Servers from on-premise virtual machines to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. In this blog, I would explain a situation where my client was not able to find relevant size when he wanted to upsize the VM to a higher tier.

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SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Extract Scale Part From Decimal Number

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Data Type, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
3 Comments

In my earlier post on “SQL SERVER – Different Methods to Extract Scale Part From Decimal Number”, I had shown you how to extract only the decimal part from a number. The post had three different methods to Extract Scale Part From Decimal Number. Recently I have found a very simple method to extract the decimal part and want to share with my blog readers.

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SQL SERVER – Scripts to Overview HADR / AlwaysOn Local Replica Server

Pinal Dave
SQL
AlwaysOn, SQL Replication, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
5 Comments

Today, I have received a very interesting script from SQL Server Expert Dominic Wirth. He has written a very helpful script which displays a utilization overview of the local availability group replica server. The overview will contain the number of databases as well as the total size of databases (DATA, LOG, FILESTREAM) and is group by following two categories

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SQL SERVER – Rebuild Index Job Failed – Error: 9002 – The Transaction Log for Database ‘PinalDB’ is Full Due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’

Pinal Dave
SQL
SQL Backup, SQL Error Messages, SQL Index, SQL Log, SQL Server, Transaction Log
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Sometimes we have an error in SQL Server job history which are not very accurate to find the cause of an issue. In this blog we would explore a situation where rebuild index job was failing with error 9002 – The transaction log for database ‘PinalDB’ is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’.

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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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