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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Sep19

SQL SERVER – Remove Duplicate Rows Using UNION Operator

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Union clause

In my earlier post on SQL SERVER – Delete Duplicate Rows, I showed you a method of removing duplicate rows with the help of ROW_NUMBER() function and COMMON TABLE EXPRESSION. In this post, I am going to show you a tricky method of removing duplicate rows using traditional UNION operator.

Sep18

SQL SERVER – How to Fix log_reuse_wait_desc – AVAILABILITY_REPLICA?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

AlwaysOn, SQL Replication, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Transaction Log

Earlier this week I had multiple engagements of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. While working with one of the customers we realized that when we query sys.databases for one of the databases, we always see column log_reuse_wait_desc containing reasons AVAILABILITY_REPLICA. The customer was really curious about what it means. Let us see what we found out after quick research.

Sep17

SQL SERVER – Identifying Query Growing TempDB

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB

During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check we observed that the size of the TempDB is very big for our customer. The first question which they asked was if there is any way they can identify query growing TempDB.

Sep16

Where is the Default Settings for Backup Compression? – Interview Question of the Week #191

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Compression, SQL Backup, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration

Question: Where is the Default Settings for Backup Compression?

Sep15

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

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.

Sep14

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

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

MAXDOP, Parallel, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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.

Sep13

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.

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 98 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).

Nupur Dave is a social media enthusiast and an independent consultant. She primarily focuses on the database domain, helping clients build short and long-term multi-channel campaigns to drive leads for their sales pipeline.