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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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“.

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.

Oct15

SQL SERVER – Error: 26014, Severity: 16. Unable to Load User Specified Certificate

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Certifications, SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server

Recently I was consulting a customer and they had plans to change certificate used by SQL Server. After making changes to certificate, we found that we were not able to start the SQL Server Service. Let us learn about how to fix error 26014 about unable to load User Specified Certificate.

Oct14

SQL Server – Understanding Connection Timeouts and Query Timeouts

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Connection, SQL Server

Have you ever got into a situation wherein you feel you see something and work for a solution in a completely opposite direction? Recently I was out of the country for a session and at the breakfast table I found a dark red bottle of ketchup which I used for my sandwich. Lesser did I know it was actually a spicy sauce. And on closer look this time, I found the mistake I did and how I ruined my whole breakfast. These are times when you oversee something which looks like one and you land up as something completely different. This blog post we will be Understanding Connection Timeouts and Query Timeouts.

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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