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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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?

Mar24

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.

Mar23

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

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.

Mar22

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

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.

Mar21

SQL SERVER – FIX: Error 14001: The Application Has Failed to Start Because its Side-by-side Configuration is Not Correct

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration, Starting SQL

There are so many ways to break things in the operating system. In this blog, we would learn about fixing error “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is not correct”.

Mar20

SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3231 – The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to Support 1 Media Families, but 2 Media Families are Expected According to the Backup Device Specification

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Backup, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

While preparing for a demo for my upcoming session, I encountered an interesting error. I thought I have written a blog about it, but I was wrong. My earlier blog was about a different error which looks very similar. Here is my earlier blog for error 3132. SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3132, Level 16 – The Media Set has 2 Media Families but Only 1 is Provided. All Members Must be Provided. In this blog post, we will learn how to fix the error The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to Support 1 Media Families, but 2 Media Families are Expected According to the Backup Device Specification.

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 18 SQL Server database books and 118 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.

Shaivi Pinalkumar Dave is a book author and a women’s artistic gymnast.