Microsoft SQL Server Resources

Blogs
- Brent Ozar feedly reading list
- SQL Central Blog Scripts
- SQL Central Blog Articles
- SQL Central Blog Stairways
- DatabaseWeekly
- MSSQLTips
- BRENT OZAR scripts, videos and articles
- Simple-talk Articles
- SQLSentry Blog
- Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance
- Kenneth Fisher SQLStudies Blog
- Best SQL Server Perfomance Blog
- Weblogs SQLTeam Blogs
- SQLShack
- SQL Kiwi by Paul White
- DatabseJournal SQL Server Blog
- SQLPass
- Vertabelo Blog
- Midnightdba Blog
- Madeiradata Blog
- SQL Server Performance Articles
- SQL and more with KRUTI Blog
- SQL Authority
- TECHNET SQL Server Blog
- SQL Server Database Engine Blog
- SQL Server BI Blog
- Andy Yun SQLBeck Blog
- Curated SQL
- Blog do Ezequiel
- SQLHA Blog
- SQLSecurity Blog
- SQL.ru SQL Server (Russian)
- C# Corner SQL Server Articles
- TechTarget Blog
- Toad SQL Server Blog
- SQL-Articles
- DallasDBAs Blog
- UpSearch Blog
- ProData Blog
- DallasDBAs.com Blog
- SQLBI Blog
- RDX Blog
- Codingsight
- Solomon Rutzky's SQL Quantum Leap Blog
- Niels Berglund Blog
- BornSQL Blog
- Kevin Chant Blog
- SQLBlog.org
- Security (great thanks to Troy Hunt)
- SQL injection
  - sqlmap – The tool for mounting SQL injection attacks tests against a running site
  - Drupal 7 SQL injection flaw of 2014 – great example of how impactful it still is (patch it within 7 hours or you’re owned)
  - Ethical Hacking: SQL Injection – If you really want to go deep, here’s five and a half hours worth of Pluralsight content
- Exploit databases and breach coverage
  - seclists.org – Heaps of exploits consolidated from various bug tracking lists
  - Exploit Database – Very comprehensive list of vulnerabilities
  - Data Loss DB – Good list of breaches including stats on number of records compromised
  - Information is Beautiful: World’s Biggest Data Breaches – Fantastic visualisation of incidents that give a great indication of scale
  - Biggest data breaches in history (by Dave Albaugh)
- Microsoft SQL Server Permissions Posters
- Module Signing Info - Info and resources related to module signing (i.e. Certificates, Asymmetric Keys, ADD SIGNATURE, etc) in T-SQL and SQLCLR
- Free Videos
- Youtube Brent Ozar
- SQLPASSTV videos
- IDERA Resource Center
- MSSQLTips SQL Server Webcasts and Videos
- SQL Server Videos
- TECHNET How do I Videos
- Veeam Learn Microsoft SQL Server
- MidnightDBA ITBookWorm Video
- SQL Server Hangouts (by Boris Hristov, Cathrine Wilhelmsen)
- Youtube russianVC (Russian)
- Youtube SSMSBoost tutorials
- Youtube Redgate Videos
- User Group.tv (by Shawn Weisfeld)
- SQLPass Virtual Chapters
- Youtube SQLpassion
- SQLBits Video
- Pragmatic Works Free Training Webinars
- Youtube Pragmatic Works Video (by Devin Knight and Manuel Quintana)
- MVP: Data Platform
- Build 2018 conference
- Free Database Podcasts
- SQL Server Radio (by Guy Glantser and Matan Yungman)
- SQL Data Partners (by Carlos L Chacon, César Oviedo and Adrian Miranda)
- Away from the Keyboard (by Cecil Phillip and Richie Rump)
- RunAs Radio (by Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes)
- People Talking Tech (by Denny Cherry)
- NET Rocks! (by Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin)
- SQL Down Under Podcast (by Greg Low)
- Free sql server video tutorials for beginners (by PRAGIM Technologies)
- Dear SQL DBA (by Kendra Little)
- GroupBy.org - Group By is a free online event for the community, by the community (by Brent Ozar team)
- DevopsCafe (by John Willis and Damon Edwards)
- SQLPlayer (by Kamil Nowinski and Damian Widera)
- Data Driven (by Frank La Vigne and Andy Leonard)
- SQL Undercover Podcast (by David Fowler and Adrian Buckman)
- Courses
- Free
  - Learning Extended Events in 60 Days (by Jason Brimhall)
  - Learn SQL Server by solving problems (by Little Kendra)
  - Codecademy Learn SQL
  - Codecademy SQL: Table Transformation
  - Codecademy SQL: Analyzing Business Metrics
  - MVA SQL Server Courses
  - How to Think Like the SQL Server Engine
  - Free SQL Tutorials
  - OpenedX Microsoft Courses
  - SQLBolt - Learn SQL with simple, interactive exercises
  - SQL Tutorial
  - HackerRank.com - SQL interactive exercises and many others languages
  - SQL-EX.ru - Practical skills of SQL language (Russian, English)
  - Free Azure certification training courses
  - SQL Server Tutorial (by Tutorial Gateway)
  - Intro to SQL: Querying and managing data
  - T-SQL Tutorial (by TutorialSpoint)
  - T-SQL Tutorial and examples (by tsql.info)
- Paid
  - Lynda Courses
  - Veeam Free Courses
  - SQLSkills Trainings
  - Brent Ozar Team Trainings
  - Pluralsight Courses
  - SolidQ Classes
  - JOOQ SQL Masterclass
  - Learn SQL Server High Availability & Disaster Recovery (by Edwin M Sarmiento)
  - Madeira Data Solutions Academy
  - SQLpassion Online Academy (by Klaus Aschenbrenner)
  - Vertabelo Academy
- SQL Server Backwards Compatibility
- 2017 Backwards Compatibility
- 2016 Backwards Compatibility
- 2014 Backwards Compatibility
- 2012 Backwards Compatibility
- 2008 R2 Backwards Compatibility
- 2008 Backwards Compatibility
- 2005 Backwards Compatibility
- SQL Server System Views Map
- SQL Server 2008 System Views Map
- SQL Server 2012 System Views Map
- Microsoft Troubleshooting and security guides
- Solving Connectivity errors to SQL Server
- Troubleshooting connectivity issues with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
- Troubleshooting Always On Issues
- Guide for enhancing privacy and addressing GDPR requirements with the Microsoft SQL platform
- SQL Server feedbacks
- SQL Server help and feedback
- Azure Data Studio feedback
- Azure SQL DB feedback
- Azure SQL DB Managed Instances feedback
- Power BI feedback
- SSMS feedback
- SQL Server Data Tools feedback
- Social, Forum and Messenger SQL Server Groups
- SQLServerCentral Forum (more than 10^6 People)
- Slack #sqlhelp (more than 900 People)
- Slack #firstresponderkit (more then 90 People)
- Twitter #sqlhelp (more than 500 People)
- SQL.ru SQL Server Forum (more than 10^5 People, Russian)
- VK.com #sqlcom (more than 3600 People, Russian)
- SQL Server User Group Meetings
- Russian SQL Server User Group (900 People, Russian)
- SQLcom.ru telegram chat (1110 People, Russian)
- PowerBI telegram chat (295 People, Russian)
- PostgesSQL telegram chat (2823 People, Russian)
- DBA telegram chat (1389 People, Russian)
- Open Source Projects
- Brent Ozar SQL Server First Responder Kit (Github)
- SQL Server Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution (by Ola Hallengren) (Github)
- Standby restore script output for Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution (by jzagelbaum) (Github)
- SqlQueryStress - SQL query stress simulator for SQL Server (by Adam Machanic and Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- WorkloadTools - collection of tools to collect, analyze and replay SQL Server workloads, on premises and in the cloud (by Gianluca Sartori)
- Statistic Parser (by Richie Rump) (Github)
- SQL Generator (by Richie Rump) (Github)
- Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library (by Niko Neugebauer) (Github)
- MOSL - Memory Optimized Script Library (by Niko Neugebauer) (Github)
- sp_SrvPermissions - stored procedure for list Server permissions (by Kenneth Fisher)
- sp_DBPermissions - stored procedure for list database permissions (by Kenneth Fisher)
- stpChecklist_Seguranca - stored procedure with more than 70 security items to validate your SQL Server database (by Dirceu Resende)
- mssql-docker - Official Microsoft repository for SQL Server in Docker resources (by Microsoft) (Github)
- SQLCover - TSQL code coverage tool for SQL Server 2008+ (by Ed Elliott) (Github)
- tSQLt - testing framework for Microsoft SQL Server (Github)
- SQLCop - tSQLt tests to highlight potential problems in your database (Red Gate)
- T-SQL SimMetrics string matching algorithms (Github)
- Azure Blob Storage Backup (by Randolph West) (Github)
- StackExchange.DataExplorer - free tool for executing SQL queries against Stack Exchange databases (Github)
- Machine Learning Templates with SQL Server 2016 R Services (by Sheri Gilley) (Github)
- Campaign Optimization - Predicting How and When to Contact Leads Implemented on SQL Server 2016 R Services (by Sheri Gilley) (Github)
- SQL Server Performance Dashboards - contains all Microsoft based reports, custom built reports, modified reports and the TSQL setup (by Arun Sirpal)
- tigertoolbox - Repository for Tiger team for "as-is" solutions and tools/scripts that the team publishes for SQL Server (Github)
- SQL Server FineBuild - makes it easy for anyone to produce a best-practice installation and configuration of SQL Server (by Brian Davis)
- Pssdiag/Sqldiag Manager - is a graphic interface that provides customization capabilities to collect data for SQL Server using sqldiag collector engine (Github)
- sql-xplat-cli - Repository for the new SQL cross-platform command line tools (by Microsoft)
- dbfs - A tool for mounting MS SQL Server DMVs using FUSE (by Microsoft)
- Opserver - Stack Exchange's Monitoring System (by Stack Exchange)
- Bosum - Time Series Alerting Framework (by Stack Exchange)
- BismNormalizer - is a free and open-source tool to manage Microsoft Analysis Services tabular models (by Christian Wade)
- DbSharp - is a DAL Generator (by Higty)
- YourSqlDba - Database maintenance solution as a single SQL script (by Maurice Pelchat)
- OpenQueryStore - collection of scripts that add Query Store like functionality to pre-SQL Server 2016 Instance
- ssis-dashboard - HTML5 SQL Server Integration Services Dashboard (by Davide Mauri)
- SQL Server Regex - run regular expressions in SQL Server (by Dev Nambi)
- Binary Formatter - format binary files (e.g. DLL / CER / PVK) into hex bytes string for SQL script (by Solomon Rutzky / Sql Quantum Leap)
- ExtendedTSQLCollector - Custom collector types to extend and simplify the features offered by the built-in SQL Server Data Collector and read data from Extended Events and/or queries (by Gianluca Sartori)
- XESmartTarget - configurable target for SQL Server Extended Events (by Gianluca Sartori)
- Schemazen - script and create SQL Server objects quickly (by Seth Reno)
- soddi - StackOverflow Data Dump Importer (by Brent Ozar team)
- Automatically fix high VLF counts in SQL Server 2012+ (by Tracy Boggiano)
- splittinglargefiles - Process for splitting large files in a filegroup that has grown out of control. (by Tracy Boggiano)
- olamaintconfigtables - This are tables and jobs that can use to run Ola's scripts as T-SQL Jobs and run on Linux (by Tracy Boggiano)
- SQL Undercover Toolbox - A collection of cool and useful tools, procedures and scripts for the discerning DBA (by SQL Undercover)
- dba-database - Database containing DBA helper code and open source software (by Andy Mallon)
- SQLServerSpaceAnalysis PowerBI (by Jana Sattainathan)
- SQL Server Telegram Bot
- ZabbixMSSQL - Zabbix Template and tools for Microsoft SQL Server (by Sergey Kolesnik)
- AGLatency - analyze AG log block movement latency between replicas and create report accordingly (by Simon Su)
- SQLSetupTools - FixMissingMSI, Product Browser, SQL Registry Viewer (by Simon Su)
- tsql-parser - Library Written in C# For Parsing SQL Server T-SQL Scripts in .Net (by Bruce Dunwiddie)
- tsqllint - Configurable linting for TSQL (by tsqllint)
- Rezoom.SQL - F# ORM for SQL databases (by Robert Peele)
- SQLtoExcel - Exports the output of one or more TSQL script queries to Excel (by Dave Mason)
- Analysis Services - Analysis Services samples and community projects (by Microsoft)
- ms-sql-express-replication - replication library written for MS SQL Sever Express edition (by Jan Halama)
- SQL query builder, written in C#
- php-crud-api - Single file PHP script that adds a REST API to a SQL database (by Maurits van der Schee)
- sql2xls - SQL to Excel Export Tool (by Randolph West)
- azureblobstoragesync - Backup any version of your on-premises SQL Server database to a network share or Azure Blob Storage and restore it too (by Randolph West)
- sql_profiler - Microsoft SQL-Server Profiler (command-line) for Linux/Mac/Windows (by Stefan Steiger)
- dbops - Powershell module that provides continuous database deployments on any scale (by Kirill Kravtsov)
- TabularTranslator - allow create translations for a translation file generated by SSDT for tabular models with the compatibility level 1200 and up (by Kjonge)
- TSqlStrong - T-Sql type checker that detects improper joins, possibly null value operations, enumeration check constraint violations, incorrect use of temporary table at call site, and more (by John Suder)
- SQL Power Doc - is a collection of Windows PowerShell scripts and modules that discover, document, and diagnose SQL Server instances and their underlying Windows OS & machine configuration (by Kendal Van Dyke)
- rsqlserver - Sql Server driver database interface (DBI) driver for R
- sp_SizeOptimiser - a stored procedure that recommends space saving and corrective data type measures based on SQL Server database schemas (by John McCall)
- language-extensions-sqlserver - SQL Server Language Extensions project (by Microsoft)
- AzureRMR - R package for interacting with Azure Resource Manager (by Microsoft)
- EntityFramework.Utilities - Provides extensions for EntityFramework that doesn't exist out of the box like delete and update by query and bulk inserts (by Mikael Eliasson)
- EFCore.BulkExtensions - Entity Framework Core Bulk Batch Extensions for Insert Update Delete and Read (CRUD) operations on SQL Server and SQLite (by Boris Djurdjevic)
- Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool (by Clint Huffman)
- SQL-Server-Permissions-Manager - a set of scripts for managing logins and permissions on SQL Server databases (by Eric Cobb)
- AwesomeSQLServer - collection of SQL Server Queries and documentations to fix your SQL Server's bottle neck (by SqlAdmin)
- databases_scripts - SQL Server useful scripts (by Dmitriy Gavrikov)
- sp_pressure_detector - stored procedure for quickly detecting CPU and Memory pressure on a SQL Server (by Erik Darling)
- Other
- sp_whoisactive (documentation) and github repo for it sp_WhoIsActive (by Adam Machanic)
- SQL# SQLCLR functions (by Sql Quantum Lift)
- SQL Server Latch Classes Library (by Paul S. Randal)
- SQL Server Wait Types Library (by Paul S. Randal)
- Waitopedia - is a comprehensive resource of information about SQL Server waits (by Spotlight Essentials)
- SQL Server wait types (by SQLShack.com)
- SSIS Performance Benchmarks
- Using Excel to parse Set Statistics IO output (by Vicky Harp)
- Stackoverflow SQL Server
- DBA Stackexchange SQL Server
- Server Fault - is a question and answer site for system and network administrators
- SQL Server Connection Strings
- SQL Connection String Generator for .NET
- SQL Injection Cheat Sheet (by Ferruh Mavituna)
- Stackoverflow SQL Anti Patterns
- Azure Speed (by Blair Chen)
- DBFiddle
- Experts-Exchange.com MS SQL Server Topics
- Paste The Plan - share query plans quickly and easily (by Brent Ozar Team)
- StackExchange DataExplorer Query On line
- Dell Databases Wiki (by Doug Bernhardt)
- SqlServerSearcher - open source C# tool for searching SQL Server objects (by Allan Simonsen)
- DbUp is a .NET library that helps you to deploy changes to SQL Server databases
- SQL Server monitor - manages sql server performance (by Wilson Chen)
- How's My Plan? - .SQLPLAN analyzer (by Daniel Janik)
- Minion Backup - The new standard in SQL Server backups (by Minionware)
- Minion CheckDB - completes the MinionWare maintenance and backups suite (by Minionware)
- Minion Reindex - Index maintenance that is fully automated (by Minionware)
- OrcaMDF - C# parser for MDF files (by Mark S. Rasmussen)
- Microsoft SQL Server Zabbix templates
- Telegraf SQL Server Plugin (by influxdata)
- SDU Tools - pure TSQL functions Toolkit (by SQLDownUnder)
- Microsoft SQL Server Publications
- SQL Server Feedback
- Docs Overview SQL Tools
- SQL ConstantCare®: clear, personal advice for your SQL Server (by Brent Ozar)
- The SQL Server Execution Plan Reference (by Hugo Kornelis)
- EC2 Instance Calculator
- AWS Calculator
- Azure Instance Calculator
- PowerBI Premium Calculator
- Nuodb Oracle and SQL Server Calculator
- Github SQL Trending
- SQLCallStackResolver - Utility to resolve SQL Server callstacks to their correct symbolic form (by Arvind Shyamsundar)
- Azure updates
- Guides for Microsoft SQL Server Express (by John McCall)
- SQL Server Diagrams
- SQL Cheat Sheet (by Luke Harrison)

BIML Resources and Bloggers

BIML - Business Intelligence Markup Language

BIML Resources

BIML Bloggers

PowerShell and SQL Server

SQL Server & Windows Documentation Using Windows PowerShell (by Kendal Vandyke)
Stairway to SQL PowerShell (by Ben Miller)
SQL Server Health Check Script with Powershell (by Atul Kapoor)
Universal SQL Server Installation Scripts (by Prakash Heda) (Github)
Powershell SQL Server Performance Health Check (by Omid Afzalalghom) (Github)
PSCI - Powershell Continuous Integration (by Objectivity Bespoke Software Specialists) (Github)
SQLTranscriptase - SQL Server Documentation in Powershell (by Vijay Bandi) (Github)
SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) (by Mike Shepard) (Github)
PowerShell dbatools for SQL Server (by Chrissy LeMaire) (Github)
Create a Monitoring Server for SQL Server with PowerShell (by Laerte Junior)
PowerShell SQLPass articles and video
PowerShell Blog NetNerds
QS Config (by Derik Hammer)
Idera 89 Free SQL Server PowerShell Scripts
Powershell SQL Server Library (PSSQLLib) (by Sander Stad) (Github)
Trello Board: Powershell and SQL Client Tools
PowerUpSQL: A PowerShell Toolkit for Attacking SQL Server (Github)
PowerShell DBA Reports (Github)
PowerShell sqlCheck (Bitbucket) (by Josh Feierman)
ReportingServicesTools - Reporting Services Powershell Tools (by Microsoft)
Powershell xSQLServer module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of SQL Server (Github by Microsoft)
Export-DMVInformation - Export the resuts from Glenn Berry's DMV queries directly to Excel (Github) (by Sander Stad)
Export-QueryToSQLTable - Export one or more query results run against one or more instances/databases to table (by Jana Sattainathan) (Github)

TSQL Format Code

http://sqlinform.com/
http://www.dpriver.com/pp/sqlformat.htm
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/401928/sql-formatter-for-sql-management-studio
http://www.apexsql.com/sql_tools_refactor.aspx
http://poorsql.com/
http://www.architectshack.com/PoorMansTSqlFormatter.ashx
http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/
http://www.devart.com/dbforge/sql/sqlcomplete/
http://www.sql-format.com/

SQL Server Test Data Generation

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/generating-test-data-in-tsql/
http://www.convertcsv.com/generate-test-data.htm
https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbmonster/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/spawner/
Tools for Generating Mock Data?
https://mockaroo.com
https://anonymize.strd.co/

Free SQL Server and R ebooks

SQL Server:

Awesome Red Gate ebooks
- SQL Developers
  - Defensive Database Programming (by Alex Kuznetsov)
  - Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer (by Benjamin Nevarez)
  - SQL Server Execution Plans, 2nd Edition (by Grant Fritchey)
  - SQL Server Source Control Basics (by Robert Sheldon, Rob Richardson & Tony Davis)
  - The Art of XSD (by Jacob Sebastian)
  - The Redgate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development (by Phil Factor, Grant Fritchey, Alex Kuznetsov, and Mladen Prajdić)
  - XML Stairway
  - 119 SQL Code Smells
- SQL DBA
  - SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP (by Kalen Delaney)
  - Fundamentals Of SQL Server 2012 Replication (by Sebastian Meine)
  - Tribal SQL
  - SQL Server Transaction Log Management (by Tony Davis and Gail Shaw)
  - The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM (by Jacob Sebastian and Sven Aelterman)
  - SQL Server Concurrency: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning (by Kalen Delaney)
  - SQL Server Backup and Restore (by Shawn McGehee)
  - Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA (by Jonathan Kehayias and Ted Krueger )
  - SQL Server Hardware (by Glen Berry)
Microsoft huge collection
Microsoft large collection
Largest FREE Microsoft eBook Giveaway!
OnlineVideoLectures ebooks
Brent Ozar ebooks
E-books SQL Server Directory
Syncfusion Techportal
Modern Storage Strategies for SQL Server
Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure
SQL Sentry Free eBooks
Microsoft Cloud Security for Enterprise Architects (PDF)
Brent Ozar SQL Server Setup Checklist eBook
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016
Giving away millions of free Microsoft Ebooks (by Eric Ligman)
Free Phil Factor eBook: Confessions of an IT Manager (by Phil Factor)
Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star book (by Reza Rad)
Online Book: Analytics with Power BI and R (by Leila Etaati)
Architecture of a Database System (by Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker and James Hamilton)
Query Optimization with SentryOne Plan Explorer
Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance (by Kevin Kline)
Azure Machine Learning Studio: An Unleashed Guide (by Leila Etaati)
Nutanix Best Practices for SQL Server 2016 (by Nutanix, Inc.)
Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure (by Has Altaiar, Jack Lee, Michael Peña)
Snowflake for SQL Server Users Part 1 – Core Concepts (by Dr Greg Low)

R:

BookDown - Write HTML, PDF, ePub, and Kindle books with R Markdown
FreeComputerBooks R EBooks
Effective Graphs with Microsoft R Open
Little Book of R for Time Series (by Avril Coghlan)
Little Book of R for Biomedical Statistics (by Avril Coghlan)
Little Book of R for Multivariate Analysis (by Avril Coghlan)
Text Mining with R (by Julia Silge and David Robinson)
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R (by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani)