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.

Have you ever opened any PowerPoint deck when you face SQL Server Performance Tuning emergencies? SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop is my MOST popular training with no PowerPoint presentations and 100% practical demonstrations.

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

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Feb6

SQL SERVER – SQL Server: Getting OS information using DMV

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Windows

I am used to exploring what is available in the technology of love – SQL Server. As I was exploring into one of the simplest set of DMVs which have been available for ages. There are several ways to get the OS information inside SQL Server. One of the ways is to use the DMV as shown below.

Feb5

How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics with T-SQL – Interview Question of the Week #108

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

Question: How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics? Let us learn how we can fix that in today’s blog post.

Feb4

SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring Connection Error 4 – An Error Occurred While Receiving Data: 10054

Pinal Dave

SQL

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

I was trying to set up database mirroring in my freshly created Azure Virtual Machines and encountered an error. The error was talking about connectivity problem, but it was something else. Let us learn about how to fix the database mirroring connection error 4.

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.

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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