Pinal Dave
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on a stage with
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who talks about the same things
- Aaron Bertrand2 talks
- Monica Rathbun11 talks
- Javier Villegas4 talks
- Denis Reznik5 talks
- Denys Reznyk6 talks
- Ola Hallengren2 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| "Run Query Run" - A Fresh Look at SQL Wait Stats | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Live demos extract wait stats from SQL Server, show a parallel query eating CPU but producing only 75s of useful work while CXPACKET waste = 389s wasted, and… | ||
| "Run Query Run" - A Fresh Look at SQL Wait Stats | NDC Oslo 2025 | 2025-05-19 |
Demonstrations show wait stats point to real bottlenecks: a heavy insert spends write log = 14s of 30s (≈44%) when data and log share a slow drive; moving log… | ||
| Interview Speaker | Techorama NL 2019 | 2019-09-30 |
Developer mistakes cause most slow queries: over-fetching columns (using SELECT ), doing heavy joins when only first and last name are needed, and skipping… | ||
| SQL Server Performance Tuning Made Easy | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Every new release of SQL Server brings a whole load of new features that an administrator can add to their arsenal of efficiency. SQL Server 2016 / 2017 has… | ||
| 7 Tips to Performance Tuning, Optimization, and Everything | 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview 2015 | 2015-09-17 |
Seven concrete tactics and measured outcomes: converting scans to seeks with a covering index with INCLUDE; replacing functions with computed columns and… | ||
| Troubleshooting CPU Performance Issue for SQL Developers | Great Indian Developer Summit 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Argues CPU matters but disk I/O usually decides real-world slowness and shows concrete fixes: a demo inserts 100k rows in 0.2s when log and data sit on fast… | ||
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