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Discover proven best practices for managing, configuring, and maintaining your databases.

Best Practices SQL Server panel with the list of evaluated settings and their status (OK / needs review) across several instances

Best Practices

SQL Server best practices: why Microsoft’s defaults aren’t good enough as-is

What to look for in a database monitoring tool

Best Practices

What to look for in a database monitoring tool

How to find missing indexes in SQL Server

Performance

How to find missing indexes in SQL Server (and why you shouldn’t create them blindly)

How to detect blocking in SQL Server

Performance

How to detect blocking in SQL Server | A practical guide with scripts and DMVs

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