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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Dec17

How to Kill Processes Idle for X Hours? – Interview Question of the Week #152

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Connection, SQL Cursor, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, System Object

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Question: How to Kill Processes Idle for X Hours?

Dec16

SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Restore Operation Failed for Database Due to Insufficient Memory in the Resource Pool ‘Default’

Pinal Dave

SQL

In-Memory OLTP, Resource Governor, SQL Error Messages, SQL Memory, SQL Restore, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Restore Operation Failed for Database Due to Insufficient Memory in the Resource Pool ‘Default’

Dec15

SQL SERVER – Login Failed. The Login is From an Untrusted Domain and Cannot be Used with Windows Authentication

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Domain Controller, SQL Error Messages, , SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Many people ask me how is the life as a freelancer, as a consultant? My answer is “life is good, but to get the complete picture, you have to experience it”. There are enough challenges which are thrown at a consultant everyday and resolving them at a rapid pace is the key. Every day is like a closed door where I can’t see what’s going to happen. But trust me… it’s FUN! This blog is an outcome of such “challenge” which was thrown while performing final checks after deployment for a client. We ran into an issue where the SQL cluster was not able to failover to another node. Let us learn about how to fix the error login failed.

Dec14

SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Group Failover Generating Dump. Error: 17066: SQL Server Assertion: HadrFstrVnnUtils.cpp:479

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, Disk, SQL High Availability, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

One of my clients was using Always On availability group. They were having 3 nodes Always On AG setup. For simplicity, let’s call them Node1, Node2 and Node3. The first two nodes were in one subnet and node3 was in separate subnet. Let us learn about availability group failover.

Dec13

SQL SERVER – FIX: SQL Service Does Not Start After Promoting the Machine as Domain Controller

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Domain Controller, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Security, SQL Server Services

One of my blog reader contacted me to check if I can help him via phone to fix a show-stopper issue with SQL Server. I offered him On Demand (55 minutes) and he readily accepted it. Let us learn in this blog post how to fix an error related to domain controller.

Dec12

SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 15150 – Cannot Alter The User ‘dbo’.

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, , SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

One of my clients was deploying SharePoint and they were following some documents to make sure it is as per their standard deployment. They were seeing below error while updating the login from dbo to some other login from user mapping window (for login properties window). Let us learn how to fix error 15150 about cannot alter the user.

Dec11

SQL SERVER – Msg 3225: Use of WITH CREDENTIAL Syntax is Not Valid for Credentials Containing a Shared Access Signature

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

One of my blog readers was having trouble with backup to URL using SAS token. He followed my below blog to fix his issue. SQL SERVER – Backup to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.) Now let us look in this blog post how we can fix errors related to credentials.

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 92 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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