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.

Have you ever opened any PowerPoint deck when you face SQL Server Performance Tuning emergencies? SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop is my MOST popular training with no PowerPoint presentations and 100% practical demonstrations.

Essentially I share my business secrets to optimize SQL Server performance.

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For SQL Server Emergency Help, you can reach out to me at pinal@sqlauthority.com with words URGENT in the email subject line for other services mention “Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check“.

Sep1

Emoji Are Obsolete

Emoji are obsolete. There, I have written it. I do not entirely believe it.

A few days ago I wrote to a client: “We need to talk about the index strategy.”

Aug31

The Job That Was Never There

The job that was never there is the hardest one to explain. After the last post, my inbox filled up for four days. The hardest messages were not from people who had lost a job.

Aug28

I Let AI Recommend SQL Server Indexes Across a Week of Queries

I let AI recommend SQL Server indexes across a week of queries, measured every number before and after, and the result was not the one I expected to write about.

Aug27

Who Is Going to Do My Job Now?

Pinal Dave

GenAI

AI, SQL Jobs

Who is going to do my job now. That was the question in an email that arrived at 4:41 this morning, from a man who gave sixteen years to one company and handed his laptop back before lunch yesterday.

Aug26

Using Historical Data to Confirm Performance Improvements

Using historical data to confirm performance improvements turns a fast test into evidence the business can defend.

Aug25

Full, Differential and Log Backups: A Practical Guide

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Backup, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Log, SQL Performance, Transaction Log

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Full, differential and log backups are the three things almost every SQL Server DBA can define, and the three things a surprising number of us get wrong under pressure at two in the morning.

Aug24

What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day

What AI thinks a DBA does all day is a calm, orderly, deeply reassuring Tuesday. It has backups, documentation, proactive health checks, and apparently a door that closes. I asked. Then I wrote down my actual Tuesday. Its day has six items. Mine has thirteen.

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 18 SQL Server database books and 118 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://darkslategrey-bat-805937.hostingersite.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).

Nupur Dave is a social media enthusiast and an independent consultant. She primarily focuses on the database domain, helping clients build short and long-term multi-channel campaigns to drive leads for their sales pipeline.

Shaivi Pinalkumar Dave is a book author and a women’s artistic gymnast.