SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Jun27

SQL Server – 2016 – New Feature: Dynamic Data Masking

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Security

As most of you know that latest update from Microsoft about SQL Server 2016 was released of CTP2.1 version. There is a long list of new features getting introduced in SQL Server 2016. In this blog, I would talk about one of the security feature called Dynamic Data Masking.

Jun26

SQL SERVER – Tips working with Files inside SQL Server

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

When two SQL enthusiasts meet, often the conversation drifts to questioning each others understanding and implementation. Now, when two DBA’s meet it is always a great to see how the conversation goes because each carry a ton of baggage which can sometimes contradict too. One of the common rules of…

Jun25

SQL SERVER – How Do We Find Deadlocks? – Notes from the Field #086

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, Snapshot, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Server

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[Note from Pinal]: This is an 86th episode of Notes from the Fields series. Deadlock is very annoying when they happen in our database. In my early career my biggest frustration was I had no idea why the deadlocks are happening and because I did not know the root cause, I was never able to solve them. As time passed by, now I have a better understanding of this situation.

Jun24

SQL SERVER – FIX – Export Error – ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

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Working with Excel files can always be of great interest. I have not seen a reporting solution in the world that doesn’t give an option to export to excel. If you are talking about two separate solutions and you want to export and import, then such options can be of…

Jun23

SQL SERVER – PowerShell to Count Number of VLFs in SQL Server

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Powershell, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, VLF

If you are a seasoned DBA, then the conversations and monitoring VLFs is something you are already doing. To learn about the basics of VLF, check my earlier blog at: SQL SERVER – Detect Virtual Log Files (VLF) in LDF. Having a large number of VLFs has a performance impact and there are a number of blogs that discuss the same. As a DBA in this blog I thought of showing a simple script that will help identifying the number of VLFs available inside a SQL Server instance or a number of instances.

Jun22

SQL SERVER – Evaluation Period Has Expired – How to Activate SQL Server?

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

Sometimes we are in a hurry that we forget activities that are pending. A typical example would be like walking into a room and we keep thinking about why we were there in the first place. Isn’t that common? Or I think age is catching on me for sure. Some…

Jun21

Interview Question of the Week #025 – How to Implement Paging in SQL Server?

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts

Here is a very popular question when SQL Server interview consists of live coding example. Question: How to implement paging in SQL Server? Explain with the help of script. Answer: Here is the script to implemented paging in SQL Server 2005. USE AdventureWorks GO DECLARE @StartRow INT DECLARE @EndRow INT…

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.

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