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Jan11

Difinity 2018 – Auckland, New Zealand – Pre-Con on SQL Server Performance Tuning

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Training

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It is indeed fun to let you know that I will be presenting at Difinity 2018 (12-14 February, 2018), New Zealand 3 different sessions on SQL Server Performance Tuning. SQL Server Performance Tuning is my favorite topic and I will get the opportunity to present on this topic not once but three times. If you are in and around the Auckland area, you should not miss any chance to meet me and learn SQL Server Performance tuning first hand from me.

Jan10

SQL SERVER – 2017 – How to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces with TRIM Function?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

TRIM Function has haunted SQL DBA for ages. If you have been using SQL Server for a while, you will totally agree with me over here. In this blog post we will see how the new feature TRIM of SQL Server 2017 works in few simple words.

Jan9

SQL SERVER – Introduction to Log Space Usage DMV – sys.dm_db_log_space_usage

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server 2017, Transaction Log

It has been quite a while since SQL Server 2017 has been introduced, however just recently I have been seeing interest for this project. Lots of users are just switching to SQL Server 2017 and I believe that is normal. In the year 2017 during my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I encountered mostly SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2016. Recently, during the consultancy, I received a very interesting question about log space.

Jan8

SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Solution – Why Does UNION ALL Work but UNION Produces Error?

Pinal Dave

SQL Puzzle

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Union clause

Last week, I asked a very simple puzzle about SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Does UNION ALL Work but UNION Produces Error?. The puzzle was very simple and interesting both together. I got quite a few valid answers to the puzzle so far. You may check original puzzle post to see all the valid answers. In this blog post we will quickly discuss the answer of our puzzle.

Jan7

How to List All the Nonclustered Indexes of Your Table? – Interview Question of the Week #155

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Clustered Index, ColumnStore Index, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to List All the clustered and nonclustered Indexes of Your Table in SQL Server?

Jan6

SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Monitor Not Getting Updated

Pinal Dave

SQL

Log Shipping, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

One of my clients has implemented log shipping and everything was working fine. Recently they implemented a reporting tool which reported alerts that data missing for few log shipping tables. The data for “last_backup_file” and “last_backup_date” is not getting updated for primary server (log_shipping_monitor_primary) and was showing null. For secondary it was reported correctly.

Jan5

SQL SERVER – Error: 17142 – SQL Server Service has Been Paused. No New Connections Will be Allowed

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

Recently I was looking around in my virtual machine to find a topic to blog. Within a few minutes, I was having an idea. In this blog we would talk about an interesting feature “Pause SQL Server”. As stated via official Microsoft documentation “Pausing the Database Engine service prevents new users from connecting to the Database Engine, but users who are already connected can continue to work until their connections are broken. Use pauses when you want to wait for users to complete the work before you stop the service. This enables them to complete transactions that are in progress”. Let us learn about how to fix the issue when the new connections are not allowed.

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).

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