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I’m back in the home office to take another round of the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.

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For T-SQL Tuesday #100, Adam Machanic’s challenge for SQL bloggers was to predict what databases would be like 100 months from then.

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In this live stream recording, I’ll show you how to use the latest features of sp_BlitzCache to rapidly improve performance on an existing server. I’ll show you how to find your server’s top bottleneck, find the queries causing that bottleneck, and then demonstrate how to get advice from AI on how to tune them in seconds.

You might notice that the advice you get from Copilot in SSMS isn’t very good, but it isn’t necessarily AI in general. Part of the problem is something specific about SSMS Copilot and the way it prompts LLMs, and I wish I could tell you exactly what it is, but I can’t because I don’t have access to how SSMS is changing your prompts.

Let’s take a task I need to...