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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Feb26

SQL SERVER – Install Error: Standalone SQL Server on WFC Cluster Cannot Have Files on Shared Disk Locations

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster, SQL Setup

During one of my consultancy related to Always On availability group deployment, I faced an interesting issue. They wanted to install two standalone SQL Server instances on both nodes of the Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster for a specific reason. Interestingly, they informed that this used to work fine with SQL server 2008 R2 but in SQL server 2014 is failing with an error.
I checked the summary file and found the message about install error.

Feb25

How to Reduce High Virtual Log File (VLF) Count? – Interview Question of the Week #162

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Log, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Transaction Log

Question: How to Reduce High Virtual Log File (VLF) Count?

Feb24

SQL SERVER – Installation Wizard Hang Forever – Please Wait on Feature Selection Page

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Installation

Here is one of the situations which I encountered with SQL Server 2014 on Windows Server 2012 R2. I wanted to add “Analysis Services” features to an existing installation. I came up with the feature selection screen on SQL setup and pressed next it hangs with “Please Wait”. I click on it and went for lunch, when I came back, it was still in the same state. Let us learn how to fix the issue related to Installation Wizard Hang Forever.

Feb23

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server Agent. Error – Driver’s SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Services, Starting SQL

If someone tells me any situation, the first question which I always ask is “What is the error message?”. Now to get the right error message, it is important to look at the right log file. In this blog, we would learn about SQL Server Agent startup issue.

Feb22

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start Jobs – Error: Enumerate Target Servers Failed for Job

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, Starting SQL

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They showed me below error when they were trying to run a job. Let us see how we can fix the error Enumerate Target Servers Failed for Job.

Feb21

SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Get the First Name From Full Name Without CHARINDEX

Pinal Dave

SQL Puzzle

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

Recently I have been engaged with a customer where they were having a performance issue. They have engaged me via my offering Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. While doing that, they asked me to write a better way to write a query. While I have given some suggestions and asked them to check, this looks like a nice puzzle to ask. So here we go to see the puzzle – Get the First Name From Full Name Without CHARINDEX.

Feb20

SQL SERVER – Improve Index Rebuild Performance by Enabling Sort In TempDB

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB

During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, the customer put forward a compelling request. They wanted to improve their index rebuild performance as their index rebuilding process is taking forever to complete. When they asked me this, I exactly knew what we needed to do for this customer. We ended up fixing the issue of index rebuild by enabling sort in TempDB.

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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