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.

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Oct22

PowerShell – Tip: How to Format PowerShell Script Output?

Pinal Dave

SQL

File format, Powershell, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

I have been writing on various ways of working with PowerShell and how to connect to SQL Server. Personally, when I see text on command prompt it is quite a mess and very difficult to decipher the same. If you play around and look at various blog posts, they show some interesting outputs even though they work to format PowerShell.

Oct21

PowerShell Scripts – get-process with SQL Server process

Pinal Dave

SQL

Powershell, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Working with powershell scripts can be interesting. I have in the past shown a number of such scripts that we can use with SQL Server. In this blog, I was playing around understanding how I can use the get-process commandlet and how it can be used with SQL Server. This exploration and playing around has got me to write this rather simple yet something useful blog that you might use in your environments.

Oct20

SQL SERVER – How to Avoid Triggers for Multiple Row Operations in a Table

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Trigger

Customers have a unique way to give you challenges that you never faced. It was one of those evenings that I was working late night on some SQL activity when I received a mail from one of my very old customers. It is rare that I get a ping from them and I was surprised at what had gone wrong. As I started to chat with them, he didn’t know I had recently moved to consulting. This got him double excited and I was unaware to why such a reaction. Your best customers are your best well-wishers too. Let us read about How to Avoid Triggers for Multiple Row Operations in a Table.

Oct19

SQL SERVER Management Studio – Why I am Seeing White Icon Instead of Green or Red?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio

One of my clients faced a strange situation. She was using SQL Server Management Studio and was not seeing SQL server and SQL Agent status. It was showing white circle. When she would right click the instance, the options of Start, Stop and Resume were disabled. She also said that she is having SysAdmin permissions in SQL Server (logging using the SA account).

Oct18

Creating and Running an SQL Server Unit Test – Best Ways to Test SQL Queries

Pinal Dave

SQL

Best Practices, Devart, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

I hope it is no secret that testing of written code is as important as writing the code itself, and sometimes even more important. Writing unit test for C#/Java/…code coverage is the responsibility of each software developer.

However, there is not always an opportunity to use autotests. For example, until recently, there were no good computer-aided testing systems for SQL Server, and many people had to create self-made products that were expensive to support and develop. To tell the truth, I was doing that too.

Oct17

SQL SERVER – Database going to Recovery Pending Automatically and Coming Back

Pinal Dave

SQL Server

SQL Error Messages, SQL Recover, SQL Server

I love connecting community via various channels. One of my clients explained an interesting issue to me. He explained that he has a production database which is going to Recovery Pending state by itself and without any user intervention, it’s coming back as well.

Oct16

When was Domain Account Password Changed in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #093

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

, SQL Password, SQL Server

If you are a DBA for quite some time, then at least once you must have encountered below error about Domain Account Password.

Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure. I have already written a blog about this long ago.

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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