SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Jun5

SQL SERVER – Planned and Unplanned Availablity Group Failovers – Notes from the Field #031

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL High Availability, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Fields series. AlwaysOn is a very complex subject and not everyone knows many things about this. The matter of the fact is there is very little information available on this subject online and not everyone knows everything about this. This is why when a very common question related to AlwaysOn comes, people get confused. Let us learn about Planned and Unplanned Availablity Group Failovers.

Jun4

SQL SERVER – Contest Winner – What Next on SQL in Sixty Seconds – Poll Result

Pinal Dave

SQL Puzzle

SQL Server

A few days ago, I have asked a question on this blog. The question was – What would you like to see in the next episodes of SQL in Sixty Seconds. The poll is still active and posted over here: SQL SERVER – Poll – What would you love to see in SQL in Sixty Seconds? The contest was to suggest the next item of SQL in Sixty Seconds and vote for the your choice of subject. There have been plenty of votes to this contest, however, there were only 4 comments to this blog post. Hence, selecting a winner was very simple.

Jun3

SQL SERVER – Repair a SQL Server Database Using a Transaction Log Explorer

Pinal Dave

SQL

ApexSQL

In this blog, I’ll show how to use ApexSQL Log, a SQL Server transaction log viewer. You can download it for free, install, and play along. But first, let’s describe some disaster recovery scenarios where it’s useful.

Jun2

SQL SERVER – Iridium I/O – SQL Server Deduplication that Shrinks Databases and Improves Performance

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database performance is a common problem for SQL Server DBA’s. It seems like we spend more time on performance than just about anything else. In many cases, we use scripts or tools that point out performance bottlenecks but we don’t have any way to fix them. For example, what do…

Jun2

SQL SERVER – Faster SQL Server Databases and Applications – Power and Control with SafePeak Caching Options

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Safepeak

Update: This blog post is written based on the SafePeak, which is available for free download. Today, I’d like to examine more closely one of my preferred technologies for accelerating SQL Server databases, SafePeak. Safepeak’s software provides a variety of advanced data caching options, techniques and tools to accelerate the…

Jun1

Developer’s Life – Every Developer is a Superman

Pinal Dave

Personal

Developer, SQL Server, Superhero

I enjoyed comparing developers to Spiderman so much, that I have decided to continue the trend and encourage some of my favorite people (developers) with another favorite superhero – Superman. Superman is probably the most famous superhero – and one of the most inspiring.

May31

MySQL – Introduction to User Defined Variables

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Tips and Tricks

MySQL

No Comments

MySQL supports user defined variables to have some data that can be used later part of your query. You can save a value to a variable using a SELECT statement and later you can access its value. Unlike other RDBMSs, you do not need to declare the data type for…

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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