SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Mar27

SQL SERVER – The Lease between Availability Group ‘PRODAG’ and the Windows Server Failover Cluster has Expired

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

This is one of the common errors I have seen while working with customers who are using SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups. Once this error comes, the resource in the cluster goes to failed state and in SQL Server Management Studio, we should be an availability group in resolving state. Resolving state essentially means that the role of availability group is neither primary nor secondary.

Mar26

What is the Difference between SUSPECT and RECOVERY PENDING? – Interview Question of the Week #114

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Server, Starting SQL

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Question: What is the Difference between SUSPECT and RECOVERY PENDING?

Mar25

SQL SERVER – Could Not Use View or Function ‘msdb.dbo.sysdac_instances’ Because of Binding Errors

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Collation, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

SQL SERVER – Could Not Use View or Function ‘msdb.dbo.sysdac_instances’ Because of Binding Errors. Let us learn how to fix the error.

Mar24

SQL SERVER – Jump in Identity Column After Restart

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Identity, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration, TraceFlags

The SQL Product team makes a continuous change in the product which sometimes causes unpredictable behaviors in the SQL Server engine. One of such change was done in SQL Server 2012 which caused the behavior which I just said in the subject line Identity Column.

Mar23

SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Listener Error – The WSFC Cluster Could Not Bring the Network Name Resource With DNS Name ‘DNS name’ Online

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, Computer Network, SQL Server

I can tell you how many times I have heard about this error. This can appear in any of the situation where SQL needs to create a cluster network name resource in the WSFC Cluster. Here are the two situations I can think of:

Installing SQL Server Failover Cluster instance.
Creating listener in the AlwaysOn availability group.

Mar22

SQL SERVER – 10 Questions Where YES May Be a Wrong Answer – Performance Health Check

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Performance, SQL Server

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Today’s blog post created from a recent conversation with one of my customers. They asked me a very interesting question – “When should they hire me for my famous Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check?”. I send them following 10 questions and told them to take a quick quiz about their SQL Server Environment. They replied back to with YES to all the answers. If the answer to any of the following questions in YES, that means user can for sure improve your SQL Server’s Performance. After taking this quick test, my customer realized that they have amazing potential to improve the performance of their server.

Mar21

SQL SERVER – DBCC SHRINKFILE: Page 1:26423878 Could not be Moved Because it is a Work Table Page – TempDB Files

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL TempDB

This blog is an outcome of an email communication with my client. The issue was that they were having big tempdb files. They had multiple files and of uneven size. As soon as they restart SQL, the initial size itself was huge and when they tried to shrink the TempDB database, it was not doing anything. Here was the message in SQL Server Management Studio query window.

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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