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.

Have you ever opened any PowerPoint deck when you face SQL Server Performance Tuning emergencies? SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop is my MOST popular training with no PowerPoint presentations and 100% practical demonstrations.

Essentially I share my business secrets to optimize SQL Server performance.

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Sep5

SQL SERVER – Generating In-Memory OLTP Migration CheckList

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

In-Memory OLTP, SQL Migration, SQL Reports, SQL Server

During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, one of my customer asked if I can also help them to check their readiness of In-Memory OLTP Migration as well as the help them build a checklist which can help them with In-Memory OLTP Migration.

Sep4

Alphabets – SQL SERVER – Retrieving Rows With All Alphabets From Alphanumeric Data

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

I got an email from one of my blog readers asking for an easy way to identify if a given string contains only alphabets. There can be methods.

Sep3

SQL SERVER – Applying NOLOCK to Every Single Table in Select Statement – SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

Query Hint, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Transaction Isolation

The other day, during SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop, I walked into a very interesting situation. While tuning a query we had a situation when we had to check if the query is locked during the execution of not. To test our theory out we had to put a nolock hint for every single table of the long query. However, it was no way possible to do so as the Stored Procedure was super huge and involved over 90 tables and 14 views in multiple SQL Statements. It was indeed a huge challenge for a developer team to modify that SP. If you ever face such situations, you should not stress out. There is a much simpler way to read uncommitted data.

Sep2

How to Move SQL Server MDF and LDF Files? – Interview Question of the Week #189

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

File format, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to Move SQL Server MDF and LDF Files?

Sep1

SQL SERVER – Rename Physical Database File Name for Any Database

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

File format, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked is there any way we can rename the logical database file name. I have blogged about it here: SQL SERVER – Rename Logical Database File Name for Any Database. Right after the blog post, I received another question where the user wanted to know if there is an easy way to rename the physical file. In this blog post, we will learn about how to rename the physical database files name.

Aug31

SQL SERVER – Rename Logical Database File Name for Any Database

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

File format, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

During recent we Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we had to restore a database on a server. When we restored a database, we realized that the logical file name of the database was incorrect and we had to change that to something more consistent with the organization’s naming convention. Let us see how we changed logical database file name in a few quick steps.

Aug30

SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Extract Only Numbers From String

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

In my old post SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Extract Only Numbers From String, I showed you User Defined function which can be used to extract only numbers from the given string. In this post, I am going to show you another method of extracting numbers from the string.

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).

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