Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend

About this episode

Guy and Eitan discuss Erik Darling's new monitoring app and the implications of AI, particularly the concept of 'The Liar's Dividend'.

Guy and Eitan talk about Erik Darling's new monitoring app, which reminds us of similar tools we had experience with long ago. And, again, it's time to talk about AI. Specifically, a side-effect of it called "The Liar's Dividend". Relevant links for more information: Free SQL Server Performance Monitor App by Erik Darling - Brent Ozar Unlimited® Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring | Darling Data The Liar's Dividend - When Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted - Eitan Blumin's blog Dear Copilot, can you help me with SQL? - Azure SQL Dev Corner Public Preview - Data Virtualization for Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Community Hub

People in this episode

Hosts: Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin

Topics covered

• AI
• monitoring tools
• SQL Server
• performance monitoring
• Liar's Dividend

Keywords

• SQL Server
• monitoring app
• AI
• Liar's Dividend
• performance monitoring

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Brent Ozar Unlimited, Microsoft

Books & works: The Liar's Dividend

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