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6 top tips on the best ways to start optimizing your code, from the .NET community.

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How to create your own custom SQL Server metrics in SQL Monitor

SQL Monitor’s Anne Edwards shows you how to set up a new custom SQL Server metric in SQL Monitor. She covers entering T-SQL code, cho…

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Adding custom metrics from SQLMonitorMetrics.com

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Availability Group Monitoring in SQL Monitor

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Setting up and customizing alerts in SQL Monitor

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SQL Change Automation & VSTS: 10 tips and tricks for database migrations – Part 2

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Profiling the performance of a .NET desktop executable with ANTS Performance Profiler

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Mastering SQL Server Profiler

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SQL Server Stumpers Vol. 5

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SQL Server Tacklebox

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Protecting SQL Server Data

In Protecting SQL Server Data, John Magnabosco demonstrates how sensitive data, stored in SQL Server, can be protected using an efficie…

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The Best of SQLServerCentral.com Vol 7

Some of the best articles from the top SQL Server community site, SQLServerCentral.com, edited by SQL Server MVP Steve Jones.

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Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans

Used carefully, SQL Server MVP Brad McGehee's Maintenance Plan tools represent powerful time-saving devices for any DBA.

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Performance Tuning With SQL Server Dynamic Management Views

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SQL Server Statistics

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SQL Server Hardware

Ensure that your SQL Server instances can gracefully handle the CPU, memory and IO workload generated by your applications, and that yo…

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Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for Accidental DBAs

Learn the steps and techniques three SQL Server MVPs use day-to-day to troubleshoot real SQL Server performance problems.

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SQL Server Backup and Restore

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SQL Server Concurrency: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning

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The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM

This book will help you master all essential aspects of programming and administering FILESTREAM-enabled databases.

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Tribal SQL

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Fundamentals Of SQL Server 2012 Replication

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SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP (Second Edition)

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50 Ways to Avoid Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues

Learn 50 tips from the .NET community to speed up your ASP.NET application in this free eBook.

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Content and performance drive Citywire website success

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How ANTS Performance Profiler saved my hide

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How to handle 25 million database changes a day

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Using SQL Monitor at Interactive Intelligence to save up to six hours of work each day

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The Redgate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development

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This book provides just the right combination of theory and practical example to get you started quickly with database source control.

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How to set up continuous integration for databases with Redgate tools

Once database version control is in place, you can take the next step with database continuous integration, enabling every committed ch…