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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May5

SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan – Backup Files Not Getting Deleted

Pinal Dave

SQL

Maintenance Plan, SQL Backup, SQL Server

Sometimes it is important to read the documentation before assuming things based on the text. This blog is the result of one of my quick interaction with a client who had an issue with Maintenance Plan which they created for backup files.

May4

SQL Azure Database – Msg 40197, Level 20 – The Service has Encountered an Error Processing Your Request. Please Try Again. Error Code 40549

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Azure, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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While trying to help one of my clients, I was shown below error which was received using bulk insert command. The command was used to move data from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Azure Database. Let us see how to fix the error processing request.

May3

SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring Login Attempt Failed With Error: ‘Connection Handshake Failed. There is No Compatible Encryption Algorithm. State 22

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

One of my client was trying to convert database mirroring to the AlwaysOn availability group. They had a mirroring configure where the principal server was going to become a primary replica. When they attempted to join the AG, it was failing with an error. The error messages we were getting in the wizard are not helpful. I went ahead and looked into SQL Server ERRORLOG and found below the messages

May2

SQLAuthority News – 4000 Blog Posts and Counting

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

SQL Milestone

Yesterday, was an amazing day for me personally. When I had published this blog post, I had completed 4000th blog post on SQLAuthority.com. It is amazing how my journey from a single blog post has reached to 4000 blog posts in just 10 years. I have been blogging every single day from last 10 years and I am so happy with your constant support.

May1

SQL SERVER – Ghost Cleanup Getting Hung and Blocking Checkpoint Process. What’s Wrong?

Pinal Dave

SQL

Checkpoint, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

Have you even been in a situation where system processes are taking CPU and not moving ahead? Recently, one of my clients showed me a system where checkpoint on the user database being blocked indefinitely by ghost cleanup.

Apr30

What is the Initial Size of TempDB? – Interview Question of the Week #120

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB, Starting SQL

Question: What is the Initial Size of TempDB? Trust me, this question is way more complicated than you read in one line.

Apr29

SQL SERVER – Clustered SQL Resource Not Coming Online

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

When I was on-site for the performance tuning workshop, few DBAs suddenly got call as there was an unexpected downtime of SQL Server. As per them, after some maintenance activities were scheduled, the SQL Server resource failed to come online on both nodes. When they try to bring it online, it remains in online pending state for some time before failing eventually. Here are the things I tried. Let us see an error related to clustered SQL Resource not coming online.

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 94 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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