SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Dec21

SQL SERVER 2016 – New T-SQL Functions – COMPRESS – DECOMPRESS

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

With every release of SQL Server, Microsoft has been adding enhancements to the product. Earlier I have written below blogs talking about new features/enhancements. Now I will write about features for SQL Server 2016 which are COMPRESS – DECOMPRESS.

Dec21

SQL SERVER – The Best Time to Buy – Devart Christmas Price Fall

Have you missed out the deals you were hoping to grab on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? Good news! You still have time to save. 16 December 2015 — 16 January 2016 is your next big window of opportunity for many software products from Devart.

Dec20

Interview Question of the Week #050 – Query to Retrieve Second Highest Salary of Employee

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

There are some questions which never gets old and I keep on seeing them again and again every time I participate in the interview to help hire qualified Developers and DBA. Here is another popular question which I often see. Question: Write a query to retrieve Second (or Nth) highest…

Dec19

MySQL – Date and Time Related System Functions

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Tips and Tricks

MySQL

No Comments

MySQL supports lot of functions to get current date and time. The following are some of the system functions. There are two functions to get current date SELECT curdate(),current_date(); There are two functions to get current time SELECT curtime(),current_time(); There are two functions to get current date along with time…

Dec18

SQL SERVER – Recompiling InMemory OLTP with SQL Server 2016

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

In-Memory OLTP

I wrote an intetresting trivia about InMemory OLTP code previously, SQL SERVER – How to take InMemory – OLTP FileGroup Offline?. Post this one of the reader was curious enough to ask me a counter question. He wrote back stating the recovery of the same is easy but he wanted…

Dec17

SQL SERVER – How to Create a Readable Secondary Server in SQL Server Standard – Notes from the Field #107

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, Notes from the Field, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

[Notes from Pinal]: The basic nature of human is greedy. When we get one thing which we desire the next thing. In the early world of SQL Server we got a secondary server as a backup or high availability. In earlier times the secondary server was not readable, it just served as a backup. At this point of time our human nature kicked in and we want to get more from the server, which was just sitting there most of the time. We wanted to make our secondary server readable. This is when I reached out to Kenneth and asked him what can we do to make our secondary server as a readable.

Dec16

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server After Patching

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

I have an issue on my UAT environment. I was unable to start the SQL server 2008 R2 instance after applying SP1. Let us learm more about it.

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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