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.

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Nov4

SQL SERVER – Unable to Attach Database – File Activation Failure – The Log Cannot be Rebuilt

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Once I was in a situation where there was a disaster faced by my client. They lost the drive which was having transaction log file. Since they did not have effective monitoring, they realized that the backup jobs were failing. So essentially they only have MDF files for user databases and they were left with option to rebuild the log. Let us learn about how file activation failure can create an interesting error.

Nov3

SQL SERVER – Creating Clustered ColumnStore with InMemory OLTP Tables

Pinal Dave

SQL

ColumnStore Index, In-Memory OLTP, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

When SQL Server 2016 was released, there were a number of enhancements that were discussed around how InMemory OLTP removed which were as limitations. I personally saw some real boot to some of the capabilities coming into InMemory OLTP especially around the concept called as Operational Analytics that Microsoft calls in this release. I am going to talk about this concept in my SQLPass session later this month in October but here is a teaser for what I learnt from this concept.

Nov2

Personal Technology – Expanding to Open Folder Working with Windows 10

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

We are all hard wired when it comes to doing certain tasks. I have attended tons of sessions at the local SQL Server user group meets and it amazes me every time to what I didn’t know about the tools that I use often. Every time when I attend sessions from my friend Balmukund or others from the community – they show a trick or two using SQL Server Management Studio that makes me rethink how I would be working the very next day using these methods. I think it is part of learning and that is never going to stop. Let us see about tips about Windows 10.

Nov1

10th Anniversary of SQL Authority – Thank YOU!

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

Blogging, SQL Milestone

10 years ago, today I started to blog, at https://blog.sqlauthority.com – I had no idea where this journey will bring me. I honestly had no idea. Lots of people ask me so many questions about blog so today, let me answer five of the most popular questions, which I keep on receiving. Today is the 10th Anniversary of SQLAuthority.com

Nov1

SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring SQL Online – DoSQLDataRootApplyACL : Failed to Create Directory Tree at SQLDataRoot

Pinal Dave

SQL

Clustered Index, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

Here is one of email which I received from one of my clients where he mentioned that he was unable to bring SQL Online.

Pinal,
I need assistance in getting the failed SQL Server resource online on the node named “SQLDBN01” for the Cluster named “DBCLUSTER01 “.

I checked the event log and have all generic messages. Do you have any expert trick?

Thanks!

Oct31

SQL SERVER – Unable to Recycle ERRORLOG Using sp_cycle_errorlog

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server

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There are many DBAs who create jobs in SQL Server to recycle ERRORLOG files every midnight. They also increase the files from 6 to a bigger number so that they have data for more than 6 days.

Oct30

Performance Comparison EXCEPT vs NOT IN – Interview Question of the Week #095

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Operator, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

During SQLPass summit, I was asked following question by one of the attendees. The question was about Performance Comparison of Except vs NOT IN. Let us quickly discuss this question.

Question: Which of the operator is better for query performance – EXCEPT or NOT IN?

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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