Microsoft has grown and changed their culture in the last few years, which greatly impresses Steve.

Challenge Your Code Design

by Gary Strange

SQLServerCentral.com

Query Tuning

How to structure your T-SQL
objects and incorporate design principles.

Create a New SQL Server Maintenance Plan with the Maintenance Plan Designer

by Additional Articles

MSSQLTips.com

Maintenance Plans

In this tip we look at how to use the SQL Server Maintenance Designer to build maintenance plans for your databases and instance.

What you need to consider for your monitoring strategy in 2020

by Press Release

Redgate

Are you ready for growth in 2020? Whether that means wider business growth which you and your team will be expected to support, expansion of your SQL Server estate, or even your own professional development. Join Redgate in this free webinar on November 20th and be prepared for the coming year.

The Costumed DBA

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

humor

Today Steve wants to know what costume you wish your work would wear.

Using OFFSET for Paging

by jonfrisbee

SQLServerCentral

OFFSET
T-SQL

This article shows the basics of the OFFSET command.

Accelerating Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019

by Additional Articles

Database Journal

Learn how to turn on and use newer SQL Server database recovery option called “Accelerated Database Recover”.

SQL Productivity with SQL Prompt

by Additional Articles

Redgate

SQL PROMPT

There is an old joke that upgrading to the latest SQL Server is wasted on some DBAs, because they will still stick mainly to what worked in SQL Server 2005. This type of DBA is becoming rare, in my experience, but there is still some truth in the idea that many of us don’t get the ‘full power’ from our SQL Server tools. We work with them as they come, ‘out of the box’, and use only a fraction of their features. The time to explore ‘new stuff’, at least as much as we’d like to, remains elusive.