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.

Once you learn my business secrets, you will fix the majority of problems in the future.

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Sep4

SQLAuthirty Author Visit – SQL SERVER – User Group Meeting – Ahmedabad – August 30, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

MVP, SQL Scripts, SQL User Group, SQLAuthority Author Visit, Transaction Isolation

I always enjoy participating in SQL Server User Group. We had recent meeting of Ahmedabad User Group on August 30. We had many things discussed in meeting. I enjoyed meeting fellows from different company who visited user group. The major discussion we had was quality of programmers and quality of…

Sep3

SQLAuthority Author Visit – Microsoft Student Partner Conference

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database, DBA, MVP, Software Development, SQL User Group, SQLAuthority Author Visit

The Microsoft Student Partner Program is a worldwide initiative to sponsor students who are interested in technology. The program mainly focuses on improving students skills for enjoyability, called Microsoft Student Partners (MSP). I was recently (August 30, 2008) invited to present technical session at conference held in my City. I…

Sep2

SQL SERVER – 2008 – Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008

Pinal Dave

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

Database

The following sections list the minimum hardware and software requirements to install and run SQL Server 2008. The following requirements apply to all SQL Server 2008 installations: 1.Framework SQL Server Setup installs the following software components required by the product: – NET Framework 3.5 – SQL Server Native Client –…

Sep1

SQL SERVER – Introduction to Filtered Index – Improve performance with Filtered Index

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Filtered Index is a new feature in SQL SERVER 2008. Filtered Index is used to index a portion of rows in a table that means it applies filter on INDEX which improves query performance, reduce index maintenance costs, and reduce index storage costs compared with full-table indexes.

Aug31

SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to Table-Valued Parameters with Example

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL Utility

Table-Valued Parameters is a new feature introduced in SQL SERVER 2008. In earlier versions of SQL SERVER it is not possible to pass a table variable in stored procedure as a parameter, but now in SQL SERVER 2008 we can use Table-Valued Parameter to send multiple rows of data to…

Aug30

SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : Could Not Connect to SQL Server – TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error 0x7e, status code 0x60

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

This is a very common error faced by so many people and I get lots of questions regarding this error. This error occurs due to many reasons and I have already posted few solutions on this error, see if you can find your solution here SQL SERVER – Fix :…

Aug29

SQL SERVER – Few Useful DateTime Functions to Find Specific Dates

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Scripts

112

Recently I have recieved email from Vivek Jamwal, which contains many useful SQL Server Date functions. ----Today SELECT GETDATE() 'Today' ----Yesterday SELECT DATEADD(d,-1,GETDATE()) 'Yesterday' ----First Day of Current Week SELECT DATEADD(wk,DATEDIFF(wk,0,GETDATE()),0) 'First Day of Current Week' ----Last Day of Current Week SELECT DATEADD(wk,DATEDIFF(wk,0,GETDATE()),6) 'Last Day of Current Week' ----First Day of Last Week SELECT DATEADD(wk,DATEDIFF(wk,7,GETDATE()),0) 'First Day of Last Week' ----Last Day of Last Week SELECT DATEADD(wk,DATEDIFF(wk,7,GETDATE()),6) 'Last Day of Last Week' ----First Day of Current Month SELECT DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GETDATE()),0) 'First Day of Current Month' ----Last Day of Current Month SELECT DATEADD(ms,- 3,DATEADD(mm,0,DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GETDATE())+1,0))) 'Last Day of Current Month' ----First Day of Last Month…

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 98 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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