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Pinal Dave

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I am SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert at @SQLAuthority

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Pinal Dave
2 years
Hello! 👋 If you like:. 🛢️ SQL Server .📊 Database Management .💼 Career Tips. Give me a follow. ✔. I'll be using Twitter to share valuable information you won't want to miss. 🎉.
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Pinal Dave
18 days
🚀 Heading to Mumbai for a SQL Server Performance Tuning Project!.I’ll be traveling to Mumbai during the last week of August and first week of September for a performance tuning engagement. If you're based in Mumbai and have been considering SQL Server Performance Tuning for
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Pinal Dave
22 days
I find @Pluralsight to be a fun online platform for learning new technologies. I have recently discovered some advanced SQL and PostgreSQL content. What are you learning nowadays?.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Want to make your SQL Server sprint like a cheetah?.DM me or visit: #SQLServer #DatabasePerformance #SQLTuning #DBA.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Client: I'm in! What’s next?. Me:.✉️ Send a quick summary of issues + SQL Server version.📅 I send time slots + pricing.🔗 We meet on Zoom & tune your server.From 🦥 to 🐆 — let’s go.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Client: Do we need downtime?. Me: Nope. Most changes happen while users keep working. Quiet, efficient, and fast—like a performance ninja. 🥷.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Client: What if I want to skip a change?. Me: You’re in control. Every fix is:.🟢 Apply now.🟡 Apply later.🔴 Skip.You keep full control—roll back anything, anytime.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Client: Do we get the scripts?. Me: 100%! Every script we run is yours. We run them together so you know what’s happening. Zero mystery, all performance.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Client: Really? What’s the plan?. Me: Over Zoom (no password sharing!), we’ll walk through it all:.🛠️ Server settings.⚙️ DB parameters.📚 Index health.📈 Query tuning.💽 I/O + waits.🔧 TempDB config.✅ DBCC + script toolkit.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Client: Our SQL Server feels like a sloth. Slow queries. High CPU. Random timeouts. Can you help?.Me: Absolutely. In just a few hours, we’ll identify the issues—and often start fixing them in the first 75 minutes.
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Pinal Dave
27 days
Here’s the most common conversation I have with clients who sign up for my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. From sleepy sloth 🦥 to sprinting cheetah 🐆 — let's go.👇
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Pinal Dave
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A query without tuning breathes just fine,.But it's a song that lacks its rhyme. The stats are stale, the plan’s unclear—.What’s a tune when no one hears?. Indexes sleep while CPU cries,.TempDB grows, the deadline dies. You call it running—I see a stall. Without the fix, it's not
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What did he say?
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Pinal Dave
1 month
🚨 3 Performance Fixes I Made at a Client Site That Changed Everything 🚨.Sometimes ignorance is bliss—until your system crashes during peak load. I recently worked with a client who said, “We just have one slow report.” What we found was much bigger: a set of silent performance
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Pinal Dave
2 months
In May, I worked with a financial organization struggling with performance issues on their SQL Server. One key problem was high PAGEIOLATCH_SH waits, which pointed to slow I/O operations while reading data pages from disk. We traced this to a set of poorly written queries
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Pinal Dave
2 months
Performance tuning isn’t a difficult topic—but it’s often seen as intimidating or out of reach. In my consulting session, we’ll break that myth. We’ll cover key tuning concepts step-by-step, and more importantly, you’ll walk away with practical scripts you can apply directly to
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Pinal Dave
2 months
What looked like a shortcut was actually adding heavy overhead on every insert/update. We dropped the view, optimized base tables, and saw an instant 40% speed-up. Always question "smart" shortcuts. 💡 #SQLServer #PerformanceTuning
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Pinal Dave
3 months
Feeling grateful to share that I am fully booked for the first week of May with multiple SQL Server Performance Tuning engagements! 🚀. April has been one of the busiest and most rewarding months in recent memory. A quick technical overview:. 🔹 117+ queries tuned and optimized —
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Pinal Dave
3 months
Huge shoutout to the amazing team behind @pluralsight! 🙌.Your dedication to quality content and learner success shines through in every course. From instructors to editors to support staff—thank you for empowering tech minds across the world. 💻🌍 #Gratitude #LifelongLearning
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