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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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.

Dec10

How to Identify Session Used by SQL Server Management Studio? – Interview Question of the Week #151

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Stored Procedure, SSMS

Question: How to Identify Session Used by SQL Server Management Studio?

Dec9

SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Group Error 35250: The Connection to the Primary Replica is Not Active

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL High Availability, SQL Mirroring, SQL Server

Along with my performance consulting, I have also assisted many clients in fixing some quick issues. You can refer for various consulting services which I provide. During my consulting with various clients about Always On deployment, one of the commonly reported errors as below. (I have changed the AG Name, Node names to be more generic). Below came when we used the wizard to create an availability group. Let us learn how to fix error related to primary replica.

Dec8

SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Brain Teaser – Changing Data Type is Changing the Default Value

Pinal Dave

SQL Puzzle

SQL Column, SQL Datatype, SQL NULL, SQL Server

Today, we will see a very interesting puzzle about data types and default values.
You need to answer-

1 The original datatype A and default value B
2 The new datatype C and new default value D

Dec7

SQL SERVER – Fix the Error – Accessing this Server via SQL Management Objects (SMO) or Distributed Management Objects is Currently Not Permitted

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Management Objects, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio

Sometimes when we do some unexpected things with SQL Server, you would get messages as well which are never seen earlier. One of my client was trying to implement STIG for SQL 2016 and then someone reported below error in SSMS while connecting to SQL. Let us learn about how to fix the error Accessing this Server via SQL Management Objects.

Dec6

SQL SERVER – Unable to Launch SSMS Error – Cannot Find One or More Components. Please Reinstall the Application

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

I had SSMS 17.1 installed on the machine and it was working fine. I don’t remember what I installed, but I started facing an SSMS error.

Dec5

SQL SERVER – Msg 3743: The Database is Enabled for Database Mirroring. Database Mirroring Must be Removed Before you Drop the Database

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Mirroring, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

One of my clients contacted me for quick assistance. They had database mirroring configured for a database. Due to some unknown issue their database mirroring went for a toss. Their end goal was to drop the database so that they can configure database mirroring again. They already had a backup of the database already taken before the issue. So far things were looking simple and all they wanted was to drop the database.

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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