On Tuesday I'm looking forward to presenting again at GroupBy Americas on a topic that was voted on by the attending public. This presentation "SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMVs" is a talk that I've been giving for more than a decade and been tweaking and tuning ever since.
This talk covers basic roll-your-own maintenance strategies using data inside SQL Server including wait stats, query stats and the Query Store, fragmentation and index maint, index DMVs for new/existing indexes, and a ton more helpful DMVs introduced in SQL 2017 and 2019.
You can register for this talk here: groupby.org.
You can download my presentation here, and the toolbox of sample scripts referenced throughout can be found in here.