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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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“.

Aug29

SQL SERVER – GetRegKeyAccessMask : Could Not Get Registry Access Mask For Registry Key – SQL Server Cluster

Pinal Dave

SQL

Powershell, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server Cluster

I have been getting many requests from my HIRE-ME page and a few of them are getting change to my blog. This is the outcome of one of my clients who was having a strange issue. They were having 2 nodes SQL Server Cluster (NODE1 and NODE2) and SQL Server resource was not able to come online on NODE21but it was working fine when they failover to NODE2.

Aug28

How to Get Started with SQL Server 2016? – Interview Question of the Week #086

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Documentation, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Server 2016, Starting SQL

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Interviews are two way streets, sometime interviewer asks questions and sometime candidate asks questions. In a recent interview, I was asked by a candidate “How to Get Started with SQL Server 2016?”. I think it is a very good question. Let us discuss that today.

Aug27

SQL SERVER – How to Fix Error 8134 Divide by Zero Error Encountered

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

Here is one of the most popular questions: How to overcome (Error 8134) Divide by Zero Error Encountered in SQL Server?

Aug26

Restore or Attach Database Without Log File – SQL in Sixty Seconds #082

Pinal Dave

SQL Video

SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio

One of the most common question I get on blog is – how do I attach database without log file. I have previously blogged about it over here. I request you to read this blog post if you want a solution where you can learn how to attach database to SQL Server with the help of T-SQL.

Aug25

SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Cannot use the backup file because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a device with sector size 512

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Backup, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Here is a recent email which I received from Madhu. He is a beginner in the SQL Server and when he tried to take a backup from SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), he got error related to backup file. As soon as he sent me an email I knew what was the exact problem, he was facing and I was able to help him quickly. Let us first recreate the same error and later on see how to fix the same.

Aug24

SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

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Recently once by my client contacted via Skype to know my thoughts about a cluster failover failure issue. They were having two nodes SQL Clustered instance and it was running fine of Node1. As soon as they failover to Node2, it was not able to start and was failing with upgrade script. Let us learn about the script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’.

Aug23

SQL SERVER – Summer Sale and Monowheel Raffle

My good old friends from Devart keep exciting me with great news. As it became a tradition, the company treats its customers with “tasty” discounts on all its product range. But there’s more – each customer gets a chance to win a monowheel in the end of the summer sale. See details below.

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.