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Data quality risk weighed on a scale: a huge harmless error pile versus one tiny dangerous defect

Count Is Not Risk: Ranking Data Issues by What They Actually Cost

July 13, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Data Observability

The biggest pile of errors is rarely your biggest problem. Try ranking data issues by impact and likelihood, not row count, and fix what actually hurts.

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Data observability explained: one dashboard complaint hiding three different problems

Data Quality, Data Reliability, and Data Observability: Telling the Three Apart

July 10, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Data Observability

“The dashboard is wrong” hides three problems. Learn how data quality, data reliability, and data observability differ, and which one you are actually facing.

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Deadlock Capture Paths.

SQL Server Monitoring Across Cloud, Hybrid, and On-Prem

April 22, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Idera

Let us talk about SQL Server Monitoring Across Cloud, Hybrid, and On-Prem. This is not a tooling problem.

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Table-style diagram that connects each DMV source to the real-time view it feeds, with how often it is collected: sessions and blocking, wait stat deltas, cached execution plans, query CPU against the historical average, tempdb pressure and memory pressure

Real-Time Troubleshooting Views That Turn DMV Data Into Answers

April 15, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Idera, SQL DMV, SQL Monitoring, SQL Performance

Real-time troubleshooting views turn raw DMV data into something a DBA can act on at 9 PM. Here is what belongs in them, how often to collect it, and why wait stats need deltas, not totals.

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Gouache painting of a magnifying glass over a leaf showing a tiny vermilion beetle, with a trowel beside it

Deeper Diagnostics and Actionable Dashboards

April 8, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Idera

That is a harder problem than it looks, and most monitoring tools do not solve it. Let us talk about Deeper Diagnostics and Actionable Dashboards.

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MCP SQL Server.

Local AI Models for SQL Server – A Complete Guide

November 3, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
AI, SQL Performance

Let us learn about Local AI Models for SQL Server – A Complete Guide. What if you could bring the power of AI into SQL Server?

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Gouache painting: a garden irrigation channel of stone with small wooden gates that direct the flowing water to different vegetable beds; one gate is vermilion

First Look at Apache Airflow 3.0: A Game-Changer in Workflow Orchestration

June 27, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Apache Airflow, ETL, Python

If you’ve spent any time wrangling data pipelines, you know that Apache Airflow is a staple in the orchestration world. Let us learn.

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