SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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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.

Mar20

SQL SERVER – sp_readrequest – Long Running Process

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

Database Mail, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, System Object

Just another day while doing performance tuning engagement, Senior DBA of the organization and I both noticed that one of the SP sp_readrequest is continuously listed as long running SP. Well, the good part was that it was not taking too much of the resources. The page read and write were pretty low and the SP was not blocking anything at all. Initially we decided to ignore this SP as there were quite a lots of other things which we needed to take care to get maximum performance of the server.

Mar19

How to Find How Many Rows Each Query Returned Along with Execution Plan? – Interview Question of the Week #115

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Execution Plan, SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to Find How Many Rows Each Query Returned Along with Execution Plan?

Mar18

SQL SERVER – Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk. Sfc.EnumeratorException: Failed to Retrieve Data for This Request

Pinal Dave

SQL

Registry, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

If you work with a product for a long time, you would start loving it. I have worked with many other RDBMS, but my love to SQL Server will never die. The amount of information available in logs is very helpful and can help in pointing the exact issue related to retrieve data.

Mar17

SQL SERVER – Availability Group Missing or Deleted Automatically?

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

As a part of my passion, I try to help people in fixing simple issues and explain the behavior by looking at logs. Here is an email from my friend about Availability Group Missing or Deleted Automatically.

Mar16

WordPress – How to Move from HTTP to HTTPS – The Simple Complete Tutorial

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

SQL Server Security, WordPress

Since I moved our blog from HTTP protocol to HTTPS, there are plenty of questions I have received from various users to share the steps to secure your site with HTTPS. After receiving so many requests, I have decided to build a simple, complete tutorial to move Wordpress site from HTTP to HTTPS.

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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