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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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SQL SERVER – dbForge Object Search for SQL Server

Pinal Dave
SQL
Devart, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Utility
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SSMS is a nice tool for database developers. However, it is far from being ideal, and this is because some routine operations in SSMS are extremely inconvenient to perform. Let us learn about dbForge Object Search for SQL Server.

Very often, developers face the challenge of searching a database for all occurrences of an object, column, variable, or search simultaneously all the objects, in which a search value occurs. If you happen to solve a similar problem, then you must know that this problem is not the most trivial and Ctrl + F will not help here.

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SQL SERVER 2016 – IF EXISTS Function on SQL Azure Databases and More

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Azure, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2016
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The experimentation of working with the next release of SQL Server is always fun and when I wrote the blog T-SQL Enhancement “Drop if Exists” clause, lesser did I know such capabilities are already existing with Azure SQL DB. When I was presenting at one of the local user groups, I told most of the capabilities come to Cloud first, get test and the very reason that it scales without problem on cloud gives one the confidence that it would work in our enterprise. One of the attendees asked, has all features first introduced to cloud only? Let us learn about IF EXISTS Function on SQL Azure Databases and More.

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Interview Question of the Week #056 – How to fix Installation Failure – Rule “Setup account privileges” Failed in SQL Server

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
MySQL, SQL Error Messages
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Sometimes in the interviews I observe that users are able to answer all the theoretical questions correct but when it is about doing practical they fail. A while ago, when I was helping a large organization with interview, suddenly their DBA reported that one of their server has installation error.…
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SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’

Pinal Dave
SQL
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Upgrade, System Database
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I do apply patches to my SQL instances as and when they are released by Microsoft. This is important because I always feel keeping the bits up-to-date is essential because I don’t want to get infected as I travel quite a bit. Since I play a lot with my SQL Server, there are more chances that things are going to break sooner than your production server. Here is one such incident. Let us learn about how to fix script level upgrade. 

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SQL SERVER – 2016 Error Reasons: Msg 10778, Level 16 Foreign key relationships between memory optimized tables and non-memory optimized tables are not supported

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages
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When I was writing the blog SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP support for Foreign Key, it felt like a great addition to SQL Server. I felt there must be something that I might be missing as the obvious. I was not wrong in that feeling too. One of my…
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SQL SERVER – Fixing Annoying Network Binding Order Error – Notes from the Field #112

Pinal Dave
SQL
Computer Network, Notes from the Field, SQL Error Messages, SQL Function, SQL Server
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[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Ryan Adams explains a very critical error user receive when binding network error. Ryan is one guy who spends more time with real world issues with SQL Server than anything else. He has mastered the art of resolving complex errors and document them so easily that one can’t find anywhere else. In this blog post Ryan addresses a very interesting error related to binding network error. Read the experience of Ryan in her own words.

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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 92 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.

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