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Six panel office cartoon: a DBA says the nightly full backup has them covered, gets a 2am call, spends the night restoring 258 log files one at a time, and by morning has a full, differential, log and restore test schedule on the whiteboard

Full, Differential and Log Backups: A Practical Guide

August 25, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Performance, Transaction Log

Full, differential and log backups are easy to define and easy to get wrong at 2 AM. This animated guide shows which ones to restore, and in what order.

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Title card for eleven SQL Server interview questions that look far too easy

Eleven SQL Server Interview Questions That Look Far Too Easy

August 20, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Clustered Index, SQL Index, SQL Performance

These eleven SQL Server interview questions look far too easy, and every one of them has stopped somebody senior.

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A male database consultant stands between a green falling cost graph and a red service failure indicator

Cost Optimization That Never Reaches the Invoice

August 11, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Performance

SQL Server cost optimization has a problem nobody puts on the slide. The savings are real, and none of it reaches the invoice.

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A dense grid of small tiles representing hundreds of SQL Agent jobs, colour coded into four categories, with most tiles grey for dead and a small cluster in red for failing silently

Nine Unusual Ways My Clients Use AI With SQL Server

August 6, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
Oracle, SQL Index, SQL NULL, SQL Performance

Everyone writes about AI generating queries. Here are nine unusual ways my clients use AI with SQL Server, and I helped build every one.

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The Night Shift.

The Strange Emotional Shift of Working Alongside a Machine That “Thinks”

February 23, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
AI, SQL Index, SQL Performance

Let us talk about The Strange Emotional Shift of Working Alongside a Machine That “Thinks”. The Night a Query Finished Before I Did

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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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tempdb spills

Performance and TempDB Spills – SQL in Sixty Seconds 208

January 10, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL Performance, SQL TempDB

Sorting large datasets in SQL Server can significantly impact performance, especially when it leads to tempdb spills.

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