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“.

Aug25

SQL SERVER – FIX: CREATE FILE Encountered Operating System Error 5 (Access is Denied.)

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Windows

One of my existing clients performed migration of disk in SQL Server failover cluster. After completing their planned activity, they found that SQL Server was not coming online in the cluster. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.) on TempDB during SQL Server startup process.

Aug24

SQL SERVER – Upgrade Blocked: The Specified Edition Upgrade is Not Supported

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Upgrade

As SQL 2008 R2 is out of support, my client was trying to upgrade to SQL Server 2012. In this blog, we would learn more about error message – Upgrade Blocked: The specified edition upgrade is not supported.

Aug23

SQL SERVER – FIX: Backup to URL Error: Operating System Error 50(The Request is Not Supported.)

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Azure, SQL Backup, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

It is always fun to work with “Backup to URL” feature of SQL Server. The error messages which are raised are from Azure storage side and an SQLDBA won’t be able to understand the meaning. While I was working with my VM to learn something about Backup to URL feature, I realized that my backups were failing. In this blog, let us learn how to fix the back to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.). Here are the exact messages which I was getting in ERRORLOG.

Aug22

SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Generate Fixed Digit OTP Code Using Random Function

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Password, SQL Random, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

One of my blog readers sent me the following mail after reading my earlier blog posts about Random Function and OTP Code. Before you read the email, you can read those blog posts here, here, and here.

Aug21

Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

Brent Ozar, SQL Server, SQL Training

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If you are following this blog, you would be familiar with my online class Practical Real World Performance Tuning with Brent Ozar. The course was initially planned to offer for only 3 different times this year. However, due to a popularity of the course, we had offered this course so far 5 times. The course is very unique and there is nothing out there which is comparable to this course. Let me just highlight a few points which makes me proud every time I talk about this course. Let us discuss Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback.

Aug20

SQL SERVER – FIX: Error – The Job Failed. Unable to Determine If The Owner Domain\User of Job Job_Name Has Server Access

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

I keep on breaking my lab environment and have learned many things from it. Here is one of the recent errors which I fixed. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error “The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner of job has server access.” While executing a SQL Agent job.

Aug19

Which is Faster – INSERT INTO SELECT or SELECT INTO? – Interview Question of the Week #187

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: Which is Faster – INSERT INTO SELECT or SELECT INTO?

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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