SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Jan12

SQL SERVER – Why Cluster Network is Unavailable in Failover Cluster Manager?

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

It’s always a good experience to visit customer sites and talk to people. Sometimes I get to see things outside SQL world as well. There is a lot to learn and I believe that I can do that by sharing what I learned. In this blog post we will discuss Why Cluster Network is Unavailable in Failover Cluster Manager?

Jan11

SQL SERVER – Query to Get the List of Logins Having System Admin (sysadmin) Permission

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Though the script sounded simple to me, but I found that there are lots of incorrect scripts available on the internet. Here is the one of the script I found to find out the details of the system admin.

Jan10

SQL SERVER – TDE Effects on TempDB’s Slow Performance

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Encryption, SQL Server Security, SQL TempDB

I am a big supporter of the fact that testing and playing with new features should not be done on production environments. It can prove to be harmful, even after you tried to clean up the system. Sometimes we are not sure what the impact of our acts can lead to. In a recent consulting engagement, I figured this out the hard way. I was brought in for slow performance suddenly and we were not sure what was happening in the system. I love tough challenges and this was no different.

Jan9

SQL SERVER – How to get historical deadlock Information from System Health Extended Events?

Pinal Dave

SQL

Deadlock, SQL Error Messages, SQL Extended Events, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Let me start off by asking a simple question. How many of you have seen this error about historical deadlock information earlier?

Jan8

How to Get Random Records from Table? – Interview Question of the Week #105

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Function, SQL Random, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to Get Random Records from Table?

Jan7

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Service – Server TCP provider failed to listen on [‘any’ 1433]. Tcp port is already in use.

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

While playing with my multiple SQL instances, I realized that I was not able to start one of the SQL instance on my laptop. Here is the error which I received when I tried starting it from Start > Run > Servics.msc . This error is related to TCP provider.

Jan6

SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring Login Attempt Failed with Error ‘Connection Handshake Failed’

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Connection, SQL Mirroring, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

One of my friends was trying to configure database mirroring and was having a hard time in getting things working. The challenge was that he was using certificate for mirroring authentication because machines were workgroup not in domain. He followed one of the blog from Microsoft site but still having problems.

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.

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