SQL Server tuning hasn’t changed. The tools you can bring to it have.
AI can read an execution plan. It can flag patterns. It can suggest a fix.
This session covers everything that comes after that: how Pinal Dave uses AI-assisted workflows in practice for execution plan reviews, performance pattern recognition, and slow query troubleshooting.
He’ll also cover the limitations: where AI helps, where it doesn’t, and why the DBA in the room is still the one making the call.