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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Jul13

SQL SERVER 2016 – Find Expiry Date of Developer Edition

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Download, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2016

The title of the blog is little weird, but it was a question asked to me by a developer. Have you ever got such error messages which are strange yet difficult to comprehend? He told me that he has installed SQL Server 2016 developer edition from MSDN (which is free now): Download SQL SERVER 2016 Developer Edition for FREE

Jul12

SQL SERVER – Database Auditing and Compliance

Pinal Dave

SQL

ApexSQL, SQL Audit, SQL Compliance, SQL Server

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ApexSQL Audit is a tool which is used to audit SQL Server events for the purpose of general auditing as well as to meet strict SQL Server compliance standards. ApexSQL Audit can be used to audit more than 170 SQL Server events, including DDL and DML operations, SQL Server logins, security events, query execution… ApexSQL Audit can be used by DBA to meet complex database auditing requirements as well as several compliance standards, including HIPAA, SOX, PCI, FISMA, FERPA, FDA and more.

Jul11

SQL SERVER 2016 – WARNING: Setup Limited to Reporting Services for SharePoint

Pinal Dave

SQL

SharePoint, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Installation

I have a habit of generally reading the “What’s New” section whenever a new version is around in the block. This is a great way to actually check, learn everything that is getting released in a nutshell. These often don’t just mean we can master them in that single page, but it gives us enough information to start our journey for exploration. Let us learn about Setup Limited to Reporting Services for SharePoint warning.

Jul10

How to Send Execution Plan in Email? – Interview Question of the Week #079

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

Execution Plan, SQL Server

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A few days ago, I sent emails to everyone who subscribed to my newsletter (if you have not subscribed, you are missing out some real fun) that they can send me one performance problem of theirs like and I will help them solve it in 24 hours. I received over 1082 responses in the first 24 hours and honestly, I could not keep my commitment to reply each in 24 hours (even though I answered emails for 18 hours straight). It took me over 4 days to respond to EVERY SINGLE EMAIL, and on the top of it, I was still getting more emails. Finally, I caught up with everything on the fifth day and I had received a total of 2187 performance problems in the email. I have responded to each of them. During this marathon of answering emails, I saw that many users do not know how to send the execution plan in an email.

Jul9

SQL SERVER – Detected a DTC/KTM in-doubt Transaction with UOW

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Recently, one of my clients contacted me to assist in fixing and issue which was causing their production database to be in SUSPECT state. The learnings I am getting from various consulting engagements is awesome and the after effect of this is a number of blogs I have published in the recent past. They were using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) in a clustered environment. They had a disaster and had a hard failure of SQL cluster. Initially there were issues with DTC and they were able to fix them by installing the DTC component in the cluster. Now, once they reinstalled DTC, the production database was in SUSPECT state. Let us learn about how to detect DTC/KTM in-doubt Transaction with UOW.

Jul8

SQL SERVER – Fix Error Msg 13602 working with JSON documents

Pinal Dave

SQL

JSON, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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My saga of working with JSON documents and finding out the various errors continues. With JSON being one of the new data structures introduced inside SQL Server 2016, I have been exploring to how these are fundamentally different from using the FORXML constructs. The more I have been working and testing with this capability, the more similarities I am seeing in them. Coming from a generation of working with SQL Server for more than a decade, I try to explore and learn the new concepts keeping some reference. This helps in faster learning and can accelerate the way you work with the new concepts.

Jul7

SQL SERVER 2016 – Getting Started with R Services and Forecasting – Notes from the Field #131

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Server

[Notes from Pinal]: R Services are very much new thing and trust me, I still have to get my hand dirty on this subject. I know the basics of it, but still I personally do not know enough that I can blog about it and teach others. This is when I reach out to Eduardo, he has this incredible ability to learn new thing and teach others in the lucid easy way. I requested Eduardo to help me out with R Services and Forecasting and he happily accepted.

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 94 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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