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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Nov16

SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring Resource Online – Error – Could Not Find Any IP Address that this SQL Server Instance Depends Upon

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

When it rains, it pours. In the last few days last few contacts from my customers were for cluster related issues. Once again, the SQL Server resource was not coming online in failover cluster manager. I asked them to check if ERRORLOG is being generated and if yes, share the content. SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. Let us learn how to fix Unable to Bring Resource Online.

Nov15

SQL SERVER – Analysis Services and the Network Performance

Pinal Dave

SQL

Nitrosphere, SSAS

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is becoming increasingly popular as an OLAP platform for business analysts. Network Performance

Nov14

SQL SERVER – FIX: Incorrect Syntax Near the Keyword ‘PROCEDURE’

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Along with freelancing, consulting, I also spend time in replying to my blog comments to learn something new. Few such conversations end up in business deals, few in emails and few in the blog. This blog originates from one of such conversation regarding incorrect syntax.

Nov13

How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database – Interview Question of the Week #097

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database?

Nov12

SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Powershell, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

There are multiple ways by which we can find a list of SQL Server instances name instances on a machine. In this blog, I would show a few ways to do it.

Nov11

Understanding Database Scalability – Horizontal and Vertical Scalability Better Together

Pinal Dave

Big Data

Database Scalability, SQL Server

When I wrote the blog around Understanding Database Scalability – Vertical and Horizontal, I saw few have conversations with me on if it is this or that. And these discussions could take a course all by itself. There is no one size fits all when it comes to scalability. We need to understand the fine prints and details of how the application needs are, what are the restrictions, user requirements and much more.

Nov10

SQL SERVER – Unable to bring resource online. Error – Data source name not found and no default driver specified

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

One of my blog readers reported a strange issue to me. As per the issue described, they were unable to bring SQL Server resource in cluster online, only on one node of the cluster. I always use for error messages, but they said that SQL resource goes to online pending state and after some time, it goes to failed state. Let us learn how to fix the error where data source name not found.

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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