Links

Below you find my most valuable SQL Server and database related links. To make it a bit easier to find what you are looking for, I have categorized the links.

You can give feedback, report bugs etc. at SQL Server feedback forum.

Miscellaneous SQL Server web sites

Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance, including DMV diagnostics queries

Erland Sommarskog's in-depth articles about dynamic SQL, arrays in SQL, error handling etc.

Brent Ozar's various sp_blitz procedures

Ola Hallengren's solution for SQL Server backup, integrity check and index optimization

SQLServerFast, including execution plan reference

SDU Tools, lots of useful functions from Greg Low

Statistics Parser, presents output from STATISTICS IO in a readable way

Stairways on SQL Server Central

FAQ availability groups, Sean Gallardy

Automate restore and checkdb, Taryn Pratt

Versions of SQL Server

Most recent update of SQL Server

Version history, sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com

3:rd party products that you might find useful

ApexSQL Log, retrieve data from transaction log

Tiger Team's toolbox

SysTool's SQL Log Analyzer

Poor TSQL Formatter

Performance monitoring tools

Stuff you pay for:

SQL Sentry
Quest Spotlight
Solarwinds
SQL Monitor

Free staff that are easy and simple enough so you can tweak them and "make them your own" with the changes you make:
Erin Stellato's stuff

Free stuff that are more "closed", in the sense that complexity, hiding source code or similar gives you limited "tweakability". There is a grey line between below and above, obviously:
DBADash
SQL Monitor
Database Health Monitor from Steve Stedman
Clint Huffman's PAL

Other related stuff:
Best SQL Server Performance Monitoring Tools and Software Comparison and Reviews
6 Best SQL Server Monitoring Tools for 2021
Free SQL Server Load Testing Tools

SQLskills

Home page (check out the blogs from the members)
Wait Types Library
Latch Classes Library

Trace flags

The documented flags
Categorized by what they do
Exhaustive list, by Konstantin Taranov
Optimizer related

Microsoft

SQL Server e-book gallery
Database Engine Permission Basics

General databases

Library of Free Data Models
Database Debunkings

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