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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Mar31

SQL SERVER – FIX: Backup Detected Log Corruption in database MyDB. Context is Bad Middle Sector

Pinal Dave

SQL

Database Corruption, SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

During my consulting, I guide my clients to have a backup plan in place. One of my clients reported that whenever they try to take a Full Backup of a database, it fails precisely after 60% completion. Here is the error message while making database backup using SQL Server Management Studio. Let us fix error related to the bad middle sector in this blog.

Mar30

SQL SERVER – Mirroring Error 1456 – The ALTER DATABASE Command Could not be Sent to the Remote Server Instance

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, SQL High Availability, SQL Mirroring, SQL Server

As a part of my consulting, I still get few clients who prefer to use database mirroring over Always On Availability Group. In this blog we would cover about one possible cause of database mirroring Error 1456 – The ALTER DATABASE command could not be sent to the remote server instance.

Mar29

Avoiding Database Downtime via Replication – SharePlex

Pinal Dave

SQL

Quest, SharePlex, SQL High Availability, SQL Replication

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The scariest word for any DBA is – Database Downtime. Every DBA who is going off duty for the day or going away on vacation for a month is always worried about Database Downtime. I totally sympathize with everyone who is constantly worried about their database’s downtime. In the real world, we all know when our database does down, it means that our business is stopped. There is no other analogy we can give.

Mar28

Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Frequently Asked Questions

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

Brent Ozar, SQL Index, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Training

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Earlier this month, I announced my very first online live training course Practical Real World Performance Tuning along with Brent Ozar. As soon as the course was announced we received your overwhelming response. I am truly thankful to you to fill up the available seats very quickly. While I am writing this blog posts, we have very few limited seats are available. One the seats are filled up, we will have to close the registration. If you miss this opportunity this year, do not worry, you can always register in the future when we return again in 2019 or 2020.

Mar27

MySQL – Connection Error – [MySQL][ODBC 5.3(w) Driver]Host ‘IP’ is Not Allowed to Connect to this MySQL Server

Pinal Dave

SQL

MySQL, SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts

One of my clients contacted me for a linked server issue between SQL Server and MySQL Server. Since I mostly work with SQL Server, it was a fun installing and connecting MySQL Server. While I was trying to simulate the issue and I wanted to create a linked server. In this blog, we would learn how to fix MySQL connection error [MySQL][ODBC 5.3(w) Driver]Host ‘IP’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server.

Mar26

SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Automatic Seeding – Database Stuck in Restoring State

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, SQL High Availability, SQL Restore, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

As a part of my consulting, I observed that there is a lot of interest in using AlwaysOn availability group. I have deployed many AlwaysOn solutions from start-to-finish. Recently I encountered an issue and in this blog, we would discuss reason of an availability database to stay in restoring mode even after using automatic seeding.

Mar25

Which is Better for Performance – SELECT or SET? – Interview Question of the Week #166

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Performance, SQL Server

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Question: Which is Better for Performance – SELECT or SET?

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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