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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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.

Jan5

SQL SERVER – SSMS – Script Out Multiple Objects

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio

Have you ever driven your car out in the direction of your office by mistake when it was supposed to be a day off? Have you ever done things unconsciously because you are getting trained for something that is common? This is what I call as human nature and how our brain works. Our brain is a complex organ and it used patterns and preset paths of execution when it is pre-occupied. This is the path of least resistance and it may sometimes not be the best option too. In this blog post we will learn how to script out multiple objects in SQL Server.

Jan4

SQL SERVER – Installation Error – [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

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One of my blog readers sent an email to me asking for assistance. They were trying to patch SQL Server 2005 in the cluster and the setup was failing to patch database services with below error related to data source name.

Jan3

SQL SERVER – Fix Error Msg 13603 working with JSON documents

Pinal Dave

SQL

JSON, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Working with new data types is something we need to evolve. In this blog, I have written on a number of articles on JSON which you can take a look at. I wanted to write about some of the interesting errors one will get when using JSON custom paths. This is something I stumbled accidentally when using JSON constructs. Let us see how to fix error 13603 while working with JSON documents.

Jan2

dbForge Studio for SQL Server – Ultimate SQL Server Manager Tool from Devart

Pinal Dave

SQL

Devart, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Utility

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dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful IDE for managing, administrating, configuring, developing various components of SQL Server. The tool incorporates various graphical utilities and script editors allowing developers and administrators to access and manage SQL Server. You can download the latest version of dbForge Studio for SQL Server from the Devart website.

Jan1

SQL SERVER Puzzle – Conversion with Date Data Types

Pinal Dave

SQL Puzzle

SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Over the years, every time I have worked with Date and time data types, I have learnt something new. There are always tons of tight corners where a number of exceptions happen. Though these are known, for someone who is new, this would take them by surprise and your design decisions can have a larger impact on the output that you are likely to get. These can cause a considerable business impact and compliance if we get stuff wrong. Let us see a puzzle about Date Data Types.

Dec31

SQL SERVER – Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider “Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0” for linked server

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

As you might have seen, along with performance tuning related work, I also help community in getting answers to questions and troubleshoot issue with them. A few days ago, one of community leader and user group champion contacted me for assistance. He informed me that they are using Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 provider to read data from an excel file. But they are seeing below error while doing test connection. Let us learn about error related to OLE DB provider.

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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