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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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“.

Sep9

Which is Optimal – TOP 0 OR WHERE 1 = 2? – Interview Question of the Week #190

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: Which is Optimal – TOP 0 OR WHERE 1 = 2?

Answer: They both are the same!

Sep8

SQL SERVER – SSMS – Enable Line Numbers in SQL Server Management Studio

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

During the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I never take access to the server. We always connect via GoToMeeting or WebEx. Due to the security issue, I always prefer that I never log in to the server directly but I always like to teach and guide DBAs who are working with me on another side, how to do SQL Server Performance Tuning. However, while I do this, I face often challenge when I am looking at the screen and tell DBA on the other side to change any specific part of the query. This is when I believe the trick of enabling line numbers in SSMS comes in handy.

Sep7

Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Reviews and Feedback

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

Brent Ozar, SQL Server, SQL Training

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I have so far received an amazing response to my online class Practical Real World Performance Tuning. As I am writing this blog post so far we have 37 reviews for this class. In today’s blog post we will go over a few of the reviews and feedback.

Sep6

SQL SERVER – Automated SQL Server Consolidation and Right Sizing – Save 50% Data Platform Costs

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Governor, SQL Server

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If you have ever needed to implement a large-scale data platform migration or consolidation project, you are definitely familiar with many of the pain points faced during the process. Firstly, manual data collection is very tricky to arrange and demands lots of work. Secondly, the planning of the capacity is a complex and detailed process – you need to take all the performance counters, their threshold levels and SLA’s, trends, different server benchmarks and such into account. When it comes to the consolidation effort, it is impossible to try to rearrange the SQL Server instances into a most optimal target server setup with manual work. All this takes a lot of time and is prone to human error.

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.

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 100 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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