SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Aug6

SQL SERVER – Error: 14258 – Cannot perform this operation while SQLServerAgent is starting. Try again later

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Management Studio

One of my clients asked assistance in fixing an interesting issue. They informed me that they are not able to run any job in SQL Agent. When they try to run the job manually, they are seeing below message related to SQLServerAgent .

Aug5

SQL SERVER – Event 17058 – initerrlog: Could not Open Error Log File

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Starting SQL

If you have ever interacted with me or taken my services, you would notice that I always ask for ERRORLOG in almost all of my contact with my client. Once of my friend contacted me and when I asked for ERRORLOG, he informed that there is no ERRORLOG file and SQL is not getting started. I suggested him that we should analyze event log for further details, after interestingly, we found the following details in the event 17058 about initerrlog: Could not Open Error Log File.

Aug4

SQL SERVER – DMVs to Detect Performance Problems in SQL Server – Notes from the Field #135

Pinal Dave

SQL

Notes from the Field, SQL DMV, SQL Server

[Notes from Pinal]: Performance tuning is a complex subject, SQL SERVER – DMVs to Detect Performance Problems in SQL Server.

Aug3

SQL Complete – Smart Code Completion and SQL Formatting

Pinal Dave

SQL

Devart, SQL Server, SQL Utility

A week ago, I saw a notification about the release of dbForge SQL Complete 5.5. As a long-time user of this product, I have updated to the new version. A week later I decided to share my impressions of the new version of SQL Complete.

Aug2

SQL SERVER – Setting Firewall Settings With Azure SQL Server VMs

Pinal Dave

SQL

Powershell, SQL Azure, SQL Server

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Recently I had a session around using SQL Server on Azure and during this session one of the questions was to access the SQL Server in a Hybrid Setup. This is a typical scenario wherein the developer was requesting to connect to the SQL Server running on a VM from his application that was sitting inside his environment. Though there were specific steps that needed to be taken, he was getting some error. Let us learn about how to setup firewall with Azure SQL Server VMs.

Aug1

SQL SERVER – Unable to Create Listener for AlwaysOn Availability Group in Azure via Template Deployment

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, SQL Azure, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

No Comments

Recently I was trying to help a customer who was deploying AlwaysOn Availability Group in Microsoft Azure via template deployment. The template was failing with below error

Jul31

Does Dropping Primary Key Drop Clustered Index on the Same Column? – Interview Question of the Week #082

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Clustered Index, SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Index, SQL Server

Question: When we drop primary key on the column, does it automatically drop a clustered index on the same column (if created)?

Answer: This is one of the most popular questions, whenever I ask this to any candidate, they usually give an answer in yes or no. However, if I ask them follow up question to confirm, I have noticed most of the time they change the reply or accept that they really do not know the answer. It is totally fine. As when I was beginning with SQL, I even did not know the answer of it. I learn doing various experiments and doing various interviews.

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 104 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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