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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Oct9

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server – TDSSNIClient Initialization Failed with Error 0x2, Status Code 0x38

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

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I just love my On Demand offering because it gives me more pleasure of assisting clients who are in urgent need of an SQL expert. Most of the time I am called for help when clients are not able to start SQL Service due to some reason. Today we will see how to fix an error which is about unable to start SQL Server.

Oct8

How to Create Primary Key Without ANY Index? – Interview Question of the Week #143

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to Create Primary Key Without ANY Index?

Oct7

SQL Authority News – SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 4 Released

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

SQL Download, SQL Server, SQL Server 2012, SQL Service Pack

It has been a while since I stopped writing about Service Packs announcements, I believe those who needs to always keep track of this and do not need to know via a separate blog post. With that said, I personally do not believe in any such kind of restrictions at all. I believe we should do what we believe will help others. For the same reason, we are reading a blog post about SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 4 Released.

Oct6

YCSB Benchmark and Latest Evaluation With NuoDB

Database world is very big and it is very difficult to compare multiple database with each other. The reality is that every database organization talks about the unique features of their database in such fashion that each database is the best among the competition. When I go for a database consultation, my customers often ask, which is the best possible database out there in the industry which can handle big data efficiently. If you search on the internet, you will realize that there are tons of the database products out there. In this blog post we will discuss about how we can select the best possible database with the help of YCSB Benchmark.

Oct5

SQL SERVER – Connecting Specific Database on Starting SSMS

Pinal Dave

SQL

In today’s blog post we are going to learn how to connect specific database directly when we start SQL Server Management Studio. Honestly, this is a very simple process, but I have seen quite a few DBA still unaware of this feature. I have seen DBAs directly connecting to master…

Oct4

SQL SERVER – How to Delete a Single Table From SQL Server Backup File (.bak)

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Backup, SQL Server

Question: How to Delete a Single Table From SQL Server Backup File (.bak)?

Oct3

SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Shortest Code to Produce the Number 1000000000 (One Billion)

Pinal Dave

SQL Puzzle

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

In the last puzzle, user had to write the shortest code to produce 0. I have received around 700 valid answers and while reading through the answers, I had a blast. I personally learned quite a lot from just administrating the quiz. Since that puzzle, I have received quite a few emails requesting to come up with next puzzle.

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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