SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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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Oct15

SQL SERVER – Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

In one of the recent projects, I found out that despite putting good indexes and optimizing the query, I could not achieve an optimized performance and I still received an unoptimized response from the SQL Server. On examination, I figured out that the culprit was statistics. The database that I was trying to optimize had auto update of the statistics was disabled. Let us learn about how to Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database.

Oct14

SQLAuthority News – First Editorial – T-SQL Challenges Beginners

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

I would like to welcome all of you to very first editorial for T-SQL Challenges for Beginners. T-SQL Challenges began with the aim to help community to come out of regular mind set of just reading articles online. There is plenty of reading material available online, but there are very…

Oct13

SQL SERVER – Comic Slow Query – SQL Joke

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

SQL Humor, SQL Index, SQL Server, SQLAuthority Author Visit

Community TechDays at Ahmedabad was a great successful event. In fact, this can be considered the biggest event held in Ahmedabad thus far along with the community. I have posted a detailed report of the same at Community TechDays in Ahmedabad – A Successful Event. After the event, I received many emails requesting the comic slow query I had shown in my presentation.

Oct12

SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup – Part 3

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Earlier I have written two different articles on the subject Remove Bookmark Lookup. This article is as part 3 of the original article. Please read the first two articles here before continuing reading this article.

Oct11

SQLAuthority News – Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL White Papers

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Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP SQL Server Technical Article Writer: Brian Swan Published: August 2008 The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is a Microsoft-supported extension of PHP 5 that provides data access to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The extension provides a procedural interface for accessing…

Oct10

SQL SERVER – Download Logical Query Processing Poster

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Download, SQL Server

You can download the poster from Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Querying page over here.

Earlier this year, I had written article on SQL SERVER – Logical Query Processing Phases – Order of Statement Execution and I had asked one question to readers. I got very good response for this question. Today, I am going to discuss about one of the errata I have made there. I had displayed the Logical Query Processing order, where I had incorrectly listed the last two operations. I have listed the operations as ORDER BY first and TOP afterwards. The fact is that TOP is always executed first and ORDER BY after that.

Oct9

SQL SERVER – Queries Waiting for Memory Allocation to Execute

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Memory, SQL Scripts

In one of the recent projects, I was asked to create a report of queries that are waiting for memory allocation. The reason was that we were doubtful regarding whether the memory was sufficient for the application. The following query can be useful in similar case. Queries that do not…

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 100 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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