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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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Have you ever opened any PowerPoint deck when you face SQL Server Performance Tuning emergencies? SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop is my MOST popular training with no PowerPoint presentations and 100% practical demonstrations.

Essentially I share my business secrets to optimize SQL Server performance.

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“.

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
8 Comments

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. 

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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
1 Comment

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.

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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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