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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“.

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.

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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
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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.

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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
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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.

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QL SERVER – Unable to Create Listener: Msg 41009 – The Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) Resource Control API Returned Error Code 5057

Pinal Dave
SQL
AlwaysOn, Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster
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One of my clients contacted me for quick On-Demand consulting. They were working under close deadlines and delivering the solution on time was critical for their success. They contacted me and explained that they were having trouble creating a listener for their two nodes AlwaysOn Availability Group. The error message which they received from T-SQL is below. Let us learn how we can fix error related to Windows Server Failover Clustering.

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SQL SERVER – How to Fix High CPU Consumption on SQL Server 2017 and 2016

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Cumulative Update, SQL CPU, SQL Server, SQL Service Pack, SQL Upgrade, TraceFlags
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In this blog post, we are going to discuss how to fix high CPU Consumption on SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017. One of the large multinational corporations recently hired me for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Usually, customer hires me once and we are able to fix all of their problems in very little time. However, this customer had a very unique scenario and I had to engage twice to help them out.

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SQL SERVER – The Report Server Cannot Open a Connection to the Report Server Database. (rsReportServerDatabaseLogonFailed)

Pinal Dave
SQL
Reporting Services, SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Reports, SQL Server
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When my clients contact me for any issue, I always try to help them or redirect them to someone who can help them better than me. Once a client contacted me for an issue with SQL Server Reporting Services. As usual, I didn’t give up, but I investigated error message and applied a logical approach to fixing it. Let us see how to fix the error related to report server database. 

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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).

Nupur Dave is a social media enthusiast and an independent consultant. She primarily focuses on the database domain, helping clients build short and long-term multi-channel campaigns to drive leads for their sales pipeline.