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“.

Feb14

SQL SERVER – Unable to Connect to SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine from SSMS on On-Premise Machine

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Azure, SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

From past few months, I am seeing a few of my client moving their development workload to Cloud. When I asked the reason, it was mostly cost reduction in terms of hardware lifetime, licensing and connectivity advantage and their developer can work from anywhere. In this blog post, we will learn about how to fix error related to Azure Virtual Machine.

Feb13

SQL SERVER – Script Level Upgrade for Database ‘master’ Failed Because Upgrade Step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ – Error: 5041: MODIFY FILE Failed

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Upgrade, Starting SQL, System Database

I have helped many clients in upgrade failures via my On-Demand consulting and I am amazed to see various ways which can break SQL Server upgrade. In this blog we would learn about fixing error Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’

Feb12

SQL SERVER – Full-Text Search Not Working For PDF Documents

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Full-Text Search, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Search, SQL Server

Full-Text is a feature of SQL Server which allows linguistic search in various languages. In general, we use LIKE operator to search inside the column data, but it is not very efficient. There are multiple advantages of full-text search. You can read more about this on my blog Creating Full-Text Catalog and Full-Text Search

Feb11

How to Schedule a Job in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #160

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Jobs, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Utility

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Question: How to Schedule a Job on SQL Server?

Answer: A very old and widespread question, keep on coming back to in interviews. Let us see how to schedule a job on SQL Server.

Feb10

SQL SERVER – Installation Error: The Cluster Resource is Not Available. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007138E)

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster, SQL Server Installation

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Sometimes DBAs get into a situation where they don’t know what the next steps is to fix the issue. Here is one of the situation where DBA contacted me with below error in installing a patch for SQL Server in clustered environment. If you don’t know then I can tell you that I do provide quick consultancy. You can read more here On Demand (55 minutes). In this blog post we will learn about how to fix an installation error.

Feb9

SQL SERVER – What is Change Pending State of in SQL Server Configuration Manager?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration, SQL Server Services

Recently, one of my clients contacted me for an issue about Change Pending State where they were having issues where SQL Server. As soon as I joined the call with them, they showed me below.

Feb8

SQL SERVER – Fix – Error – Property MemoryAllocatedToMemory OptimizedObjectsInKB is not available for Database. This property may not exist for this object, or may not be retrievable due to insufficient access rights.

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Memory, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Security, SSMS

The other day when I was presenting my popular training SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop, during the demonstrations, I received following error. It was bit embarrassing for me as I was presenting in front of over 25 extremely smart DBAs and the error MemoryAllocatedToMemoryOptimizedObjectsInKB showed up on the screen.

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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