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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Jul31

SQL SERVER – Find Out Column Name Using COL_NAME() Function

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Column, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

In SQL Server, there are many methods to find out the column names in a table. If you want to find out the column names based on the ordinal position you can do it querying system view size. Columns. Do you know that you can also do this by using COL_NAME() system function?

Jul30

How is Oracle Temporary Table Different from SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #133

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Oracle, SQL Server, Temp Table

Question: How is Oracle Temporary Table Different from SQL Server?

Jul29

SQL SERVER – How to Check if a Column Exists in SQL Server Table?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Column, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to check if a column exists in SQL Server table?

Jul28

SQL SERVER – How to Identify Columns Used In A View?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Column, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL View

The views are very tricky. Sometimes they help performance and sometimes they negatively impact performance. Recently, during Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I realized that one of the view was the real performance killer. The challenge was to identify column used in a view. We decided to open the view and list all the columns but that was very cumbersome tasks. Finally, we decided to write a script which can help identify columns used in a view.

Jul27

SQL SERVER – FIX: RequireKerberos Error During SQL 2008 Installation on Windows 2008 R2 Cluster

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

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Today the progress made in technology is astounding and beyond our imaginations, but still there are clients who can’t move to higher, latest and greatest version of SQL so easily. They are still stuck with SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 SQL servers. In this blog post we will learn how to fix RequireKerberos Error During SQL 2008 Installation on Windows 2008 R2 Cluster.

Jul26

SQL SERVER – Msg 1833 – File Cannot be Reused Until After the Next BACKUP LOG Operation

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

While preparing for a demo for an upcoming session, I came across an error which I didn’t see earlier. Here is the error in the UI and it is related to Backup Log Operation.

Jul25

SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 35250 – The Connection to the Primary Replica is Not Active. The Command Cannot be Processed

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

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Earlier I wrote a blog on same error message which you can read from below link. SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 35250, Level 16, State 7 – The Connection to the Primary Replica is Not Active. The Command Cannot be Processed

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.

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