SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Apr11

Podcast – Conversation With Author – Serving a Benevolent Master

Pinal Dave

Personal

SQLAuthority Book Review

I had amazing fun time earlier last week when I was interviewed by prominent podcaster Dave Rael. He is amazing interviewer and knows how to get secret information from the people. He had asked me indeed very, very difficult question in the podcast. I consider myself as a good speaker, but there were many moments when I fumbled to answer the questions immediately. I think the reason for the same is simple – the interviewer Dave was too good.

Apr10

What is ACID Property in Database? – Interview Question of the Week #066

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

ACID, SQL Server

Today I want to take you all back to the one of the very original database interview questions and answer which I see often discussed in the interview. I have previously written about this ACID properties as well. In my career, I have seen 1000s of the interview. One of my most popular services is to help people with interview questions and answers. I have often observed when interviewer runs out of questions to ask and thinking of the next question, they often ask this question about ACID Property of the database.

Apr9

SQL SERVER – InMemory OLTP Migration Assistant Powershell Script

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

In-Memory OLTP, Powershell, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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In one of my recent interaction with my client, they were so much impressed with the fact that SQL Server has now introduced the ability to use In Memory OLTP. They said they were interested in implementing the same in their environment for a number of applications. The hardware refresh was due and they were also upgrading a number of their legacy applications which were hosted on SQL Server 2005 to the latest version as that was also due. In this blog post we will learn about InMemory OLTP Migration Assistant.

Apr8

SQL SERVER – Identifying Database Default Locations for Data and Logs

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Log, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

How often have you had the opportunity to go back to basics and learn the same thing again in a different manner? How many of you are developers here? I am sure each one of us write a piece of code that gets onto the production – how often have you been revisiting the same code say after a week post release. Have you ever tried to look at the code to enhance it or do the same thing differently? I am sure the majority of you never even want to look at the old code you wrote. This is second to human nature and trust me, you are not alone in this planet with this attitude. Let us learn about Database Default Locations.

Apr7

SQL SERVER – Huge Transaction Log in Snapshot Replication!

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Transaction Log

Learning never stops for me! I was into a situation where the log space for the database is not getting reused and it is increasing in size. As usual, I asked to check sys.databases catalog view and we found that the log_space_reuse_wait as “Replication”.

Apr6

SQL SERVER – What is DBCC TRACEON and DBCC TRACEOFF messages in ERRORLOG?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

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One of my clients asked me more about these messages logged in the SQL Server ERRORLOG. If you are new to SQL Server and don’t know how to reach to ERRORLOG, read below Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. In this blog post we will discuss about DBCC TRACEON.

Apr5

SQL SERVER – How to Change SQL Server Collation on Microsoft Azure VM (IaaS)

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Azure, SQL Collation, SQL Server

I have been using Microsoft Azure, SQL Virtual Machine (IaaS) for quite some time because few of my clients ask questions about them. My clients generally use images from gallery to deploy SQL Server. Once they realized that they want to change the SQL Server collation instance. I was contacted to know the steps to do that. I learned something new so sharing via the blog.

Caution: Rebuild of system databases is as good as the fresh installation of SQL Server. YOU WOULD LOSE ALL EXISTING INFORMATION so please backup the stuff, if needed.

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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