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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.

Once you learn my business secrets, you will fix the majority of problems in the future.

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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.

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“.

SQL SERVER – Error 9002: The Transaction Log for Database ‘SQLDB’ is Full Due to ‘DATABASE_MIRRORING’

It is interesting to see in SQL Server that same error message is raised due to multiple reasons. One such error is 9002. In this blog, we would quickly learn about the cause of error 9002: The transaction log for database ‘SQLDB’ is full due to ‘DATABASE_MIRRORING’

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SQL SERVER – Observation: ROWLOCK Hint and Slow Performance

During my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check Developer showed me a slow query which used ROWLOCK hint. The common understanding is that with the help of ROWLOCK hint SQL Server only locks a single row which eventually leads to performance but in their case, it was actually very much opposite. Let us see this scenario with a simple example.

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SQL SERVER – Install Error: Validation for Setting ‘AGTSVCACCOUNT’ Failed. Error Message: The RPC Server is Unavailable

During my consultancy engagement, my client’s DBA team was installing SQL Server and getting an error. Since they know my work style, I got pulled into fixing that issue. In this blog, we would learn how to fix SQL installation error: Validation for setting ‘AGTSVCACCOUNT’ failed. Error message: The RPC server is unavailable.

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