Pinal Dave @pinaldave
I am SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert at @SQLAuthority blog.SQLAuthority.com Joined May 2007-
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⚠️ Excel says: “This workbook contains links to one or more external sources that could be unsafe. If you trust the links, update them to get the latest data. Otherwise, you can keep working with the data you have.” 💡 Quick Tip: Press Ctrl+F, search [. External links always show…
🚀 SQL Server Performance: JSON vs XML – The Showdown During a recent consulting engagement, I benchmarked JSON vs XML in SQL Server for real-world data integration scenarios. The results were eye-opening: ✅ Small dataset (3 rows): JSON was 9.8x faster ✅ Large dataset (1,000…
CXPACKET waits are not villains. In our latest tuning story we show how 5–10 percent CXPACKET waits meant healthy parallelism. Forcing MAXDOP = 1 killed performance. Discover why in the blog blog.sqlauthority.com/2025/07/25/sql… #SQLAuthority #SQLTips #Parallelism #Database
🚀 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…
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?
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…
🚨 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…
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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