About Me

Assalamualaikum (peace be upon you).

I am delighted to be part of the core team to design and develop project architecture for Asa Microfinance Management System, which happens to be one of the largest microfinance companies in the world.

I am proud to design relational big data architecture for ASA's 3000+ branches' transactional system with terabytes of database size which is designed to handle at least 15 million transactions a day. Troubleshooting and performance tuning of SQL server with Availability Group for various bottlenecks is not only the part I am good at, but it also happens to be my passion.

I feel like the person responsible for making the SQL server go faster.

Feel free to contact me for your SQL Server Pain Relief, Let me help you find the root cause of your problem!

I am available to look into your SQL Server bottlenecks. If your SQL Server issue is interesting, I am here to do it free of cost. Just hit the contact me form to get in touch with me.

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Threadpool - A deadly poison wait for SQL Server (The What, When and How)

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How to configure your Availability Group listener to ASP.NET

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SQL Data Tools - Compare Data

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SQL Insider 01 : An Anatomy of SELECT

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Maxdop and Cost theshold for parallelism SQL Server

Maxdop Maxdop stands for max degree for parallelism. Let's say, the maxdop is set to 4, it means during parallel plan execution, SQL server is going to use 4 processors. If you set your Maxdop settings to 0, it means SQL server is going to use as many processors it needs to complete your request.

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SQL Server Performance : OR vs UNION ALL

When writing queries, we seem to care less about the performance issue at first. Our first goal is to make the output right. When we get the correct output, we then move on to the next phase we call performance tuning. Today we will try to understand what happens when you write OR in your query. We will do the same thing with UNION ALL and try to understand which one seems to perform better.

SQL Schema Compare with Visual Studio (A complete Guide)

Introduction When you're working on your Dev Database, an urgent issue comes along, and you instantly solve it by changing Scheme in the Staging Database or Production Database :3, few more these type of patching and you're completely out of sync! A lot of paid alternatives are there like SQL Data Compare by RedGate, but my first choice is Visual Studio's SQL Data Tools. In the following article, I tried to image-describe the steps for SQL Data Tool. Like I said before, there are lots of handly DBAtools out there to compare Schema between two DB Sources. I would like to discuss how you can compare two SQL Server DB with Visual Studio. Make sure you have SQL Server Data tools checked while installing Visual Studio.

Slow SQL Server : What we should NOT do

Try to list the best practices of SQL Server. It will require a heck of a time. Try to list the Bad Practices and it will require more than the best practice list , of course, probably you’ll end up getting frustrated . (seeing all the oops configurations and its effect on SQL Server )

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