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.

An Index Reduces Performance of SELECT Queries (Video)
3 Common Mistakes to Kill SQL Server Performance (Video)
Click here for More Free Videos

For SQL Server Emergency Help, you can reach out to me at pinal@sqlauthority.com with words URGENT in the email subject line for other services mention “Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check“.

Dec8

SQL SERVER Management Studio – Taking DB Offline Made Easier

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Starting SQL

I have an appetite to observe and learn from what happens around me more. These are the best ways we realize how life has been gifted to us. Since I have been traveling lately like mad with families where there has been enough vacation filled with some work sporadically, I got to see how my family enjoys the moment they have in hand. I know it is difficult to get the fee time, but it is a great break from the norm. In my recent Europe trip with my family, I was to travel in a train for close to 3+ hours and I was wondering what I am going to do. Obviously, I had some books to kill my time, but I chose not to do that because my daughter was around. As we boarded the train and started our journey, the initial excitement moved to become “What next?”. As I started to think, I saw my daughter quickly jump into her grandfather’s seat and started to say something and they both got busy watching the sky. Getting curious, I was trying to figure out what both were up to. Interestingly, my daughter made-up a game to create shapes and characters from the moving clouds. And both got busy. Let us learn in this blog post how we can take a database offline.

Dec7

SQL SERVER – FIX – Error: 26023 – TCP Port is Already in Use

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

One of my clients approach me that after patching of SQL instances, database mirroring stopped working. As usual, I asked them to share ERRORLOG file SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. In this blog post we will learn about how to fix error 26023 TCP Port is Already in Use.

Dec6

SQL SERVER – Speed Up Performance Without Code Change

Pinal Dave

SQL Video

Nitrosphere, SQL Performance, SQL Server

In this blog post we are going to leave about how to Speed Up Performance Without Code Change or Configuration Change in SQL Server.

Dec5

SQL SERVER – Errors When Disk Space is the Reason

Pinal Dave

SQL

Disk, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

In the past, I have written a number of blogs when it comes to working with errors pertinent to disk space running out. In this blog, I try to consolidate the common messages you are going to see in the Error logs when the database engine is not able to get the space that it needs from the disk subsystem. One of the common scenario’s where these are seen is while recovery operation (when SQL is restarted).

Dec4

DMV to Replace DBCC INPUTBUFFER Command – Interview Question of the Week #100

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

Question: Is there any way to replace DBCC INPUTBUFFER Command?

Dec3

SQL SERVER – FIX Error – Cluster Network Name showing NETBIOS status as “The system cannot find the file specified”

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

Over a period, I have learned that fixing an issue is easier if we know which log we should look at and what we should search on google. Here is the situation which I was into few days back. In this blog post we will learn how to fix the error Cluster Network Name showing NETBIOS status as “The system cannot find the file specified”.

Dec2

SQL SERVER – Fix Connection Error – [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(Connect())

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

No Comments

As a part of my quick consultancy, I was contacted by a client who was having trouble where the application was not able to connect to SQL Server. We all joined the call and desktop sharing to learn more about the issue. We looked into the application and found that the SQL connection from the client application were constantly failing with the following connection error:

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(Connect())

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).

Nupur Dave is a social media enthusiast and an independent consultant. She primarily focuses on the database domain, helping clients build short and long-term multi-channel campaigns to drive leads for their sales pipeline.