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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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“.

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.

Feb19

SQL SERVER- Unable to Failover AlwaysOn Availability Group to Disaster Recovery Site

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, SQL High Availability, SQL Server

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One of my clients took my assistance to deploy Always On availability group. After few months, they added a Disaster Recovery node to windows cluster and availability group also. Later, they contacted me that they are not able to move availability group to DR node. They were getting an error like below in event viewer.

Feb18

How to Get VLF Count and Size in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #161

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL DMV, SQL Log, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, VLF

Question: How to Get VLF Count and Size Information in SQL Server?

Feb17

SQL SERVER – Patch Rule Failure: Not Clustered or the Cluster Service is Up and Online

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages, SQL Patch, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

One of my clients contacted me for quick assistance. They were trying to install a Service pack for SQL Server 2016 instance, but it was failing with below error message about cluster service.

Feb16

SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan Error: Cannot Create a Task From XML For Task, Eue to Error 0x80070057. The Parameter is Incorrect. (OnPreExecute)

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS, Virtualization

Once I encountered an error while creating new maintenance plans on my virtual machine.

Feb15

SQL SERVER – Don’t Ignore Warning: Cluster Resource DLL Update Restart Check

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster, Starting SQL

This was one of the hard lessons learned, so I am sharing with blog readers. This is about an error in cluster resource DLL.

While applying the patch to SQL instance, I cluster, sometimes we get warning “Cluster Resource DLL Update Restart Check.” If we check Detail.txt file in setup logs, we will find below.

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.

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.