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.

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Dec3

When to Use IDENT_CURRENT? – Interview Question of the Week #150

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Function, SQL Identity, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: When to Use IDENT_CURRENT and SCOPE_IDENTITY()?

Dec2

SQL SERVER – Backup to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.)

Pinal Dave

SQL

Powershell, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Windows

It’s always a good idea to be up-to-the-speed with the current market trend. As a part of my consulting I have been getting calls from clients having issues with Azure. So, I started learning Azure as well. Let us learn about how to fix the URL error.

Dec1

SQL SERVER – Execution Failed. See the Maintenance Plan and SQL Server Agent Job History Logs for Details

Pinal Dave

SQL

Maintenance Plan, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

While doing my consulting, I created a maintenance plan for my client to take full and log backups on a regular basis. The client was a little impatient, and he wanted to test everything before I get off the call. So, they tried to execute the maintenance plan which I created. It failed like below

Nov30

SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Script to Sync Logins Between Replicas?

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, , SQL Server, SQL Server Security

One of my blog readers was referring below blog SQL SERVER – Create Login with SID – Way to Synchronize Logins on Secondary Server. Let us learn in this blog post about the script to sync logins between replicas.

Nov29

SQL SERVER – RDP Error to Azure Virtual Machines – The remote computer that you are trying to connect to requires Network Level Authentication (NLA)

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

I have some Azure Virtual machines which have AlwaysOn deployed for my quick testing purposes. Most of the time I keep them turned off by whenever there is a demo, I turn them on. In this blog post we will learn about RDP Error and how to fix it.

Nov28

SQL SERVER – Msg 1105 – Could Not Allocate Space for Object Name in Database ‘DB’ Because the ‘PRIMARY’ Filegroup is Full

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

This is one of the famous error which has been reported many times by many clients. Here is the exact error which you might see. One of my clients complained that our database was unable to grow despite available space on the disk. Here is the error which they shared. Let us learn about error related to allocate space.

Nov27

SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Availability Group Backup fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica Not Working Correctly

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

One of my clients has configured AlwaysOn availability group and wanted to automate backup to secondary replica. They debugged and found that the function sys.fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica returns 0 no matter what the backup preference is set to. Since function was returning zero, the maintenance plan was ignoring the server to take backup.

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 90 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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