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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Essentially I share my business secrets to optimize SQL Server performance.

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Feb3

SQL SERVER – Error: 566, Severity: 21 – An Error Occurred While Writing an Audit Trace. SQL Server is Shutting Down

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

Have you ever been in a situation where SQL Server shuts down by itself? It sounds strange but I met across a gentleman in flight who reported this issue to me. Since I was curious to know the cause, we exchanged our business cards. Once I came back home, I sent him an email asking more details about the SQL shutdown issue. Let us learn about how to fix error, An Error Occurred While Writing an Audit Trace.

Feb2

SQL SERVER – Script to Find and Monitoring TempDB Space Usage

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB

I have started blogging on my site long ago and my whole idea was to make script repository so that others can reuse it. Now when I look back, there are many scripts and many solutions which I have written. Personally, I have used many of them. Today I am sharing another script which I have used with one of my clients and it was very useful for me in troubleshooting a strange TempDB log file issue. Let us learn about Monitoring TempDB Space Usage.

Feb1

SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop – Notes and Thoughts

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Index, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Training

In the month of January, I offered exclusive training to my newsletter subscribers. The training was extremely unique and was available for a limited time. Quite a lot of newsletter subscribers took advantage of this limited time offer of “SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop”.

Jan31

SQL SERVER – Error Msg 10778, Level 16 with InMemory OLTP

Pinal Dave

SQL

In-Memory OLTP, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

SQL Server 2016 brought several innovations. One of the most anticipated feature additions was the ability to define foreign keys with InMemory tables. I wrote about this feature earlier on blog at: SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP support for Foreign Key.

Jan30

SQL SERVER – Understanding JSON NULL Value Using STRICT Keyword

Pinal Dave

SQL

JSON, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Playing around with the new capability of SQL Server 2016 has been a fun journey. Even after a year, the discovery keeps happening every single day that I work with it. When I wrote the post around NULL values getting returned, lesser did I know there have been folks who work on this feature. Let us learn in this blog post about JSON NULL Value Using STRICT Keyword. Do make sure to read the other blog too:

Jan29

Find All Queries with Implicit Conversion in SQL Server – Interview Question of the Week #107

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL DMV, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How do I find out how many queries have an Implicit Conversion in SQL Server? The source of this question is very interesting.

Jan28

SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database master failed – Error: 4860, Severity: 16, State: 1 – Cannot bulk load. SqlTraceCollect.dtsx does not exist

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, System Database

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Of late, I have been contacted by few clients who have been facing issues with SQL startup failure after applying patch to SQL Server instance. This blog is an outcome of one such assistance provided. Here is a blog post where I discuss script level upgrade for database master fails.

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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