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SQL Server KIT

Useful links, scripts, tools and best practice for Microsoft SQL Server Database

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Repo Folders and Files
SQL Server Web Resources
BIML Resources and Bloggers
SQL Server Sample Databases and Datasets
PowerShell and SQL Server
TSQL Format Code
SQL Server Test Data Generation
Free SQL Server, R ebooks
License

Repo Folders and Files

SQL Server Data Types
SQL Server Drivers
SQL Server Edition
SQL Server Hints
SQL Server Name Convention and T-SQL Programming Style
SQL Server Licensing
SQL Server People
SQL Server Trace Flag (Complete list - 533 trace flags)
SQL Server Version (Complete list - from SQL Server 1.0 to SQL Server 2017)
Articles
CLR procedures
- SplitterB_CLR
Extended Events
Known Errors
Solution
- dbWarden a free SQL Server Monitoring Package (by Stevie Rounds and Michael Rounds)
- Base line Collector script (by Robert Virag)
- Ola Maintenance Solution (by Ola Hallengren)
- SQLQueryStress (by Adam Machanic)
- SysJobHistory (by David Wentzel)
SSMS
- SSMS addins (34 useful free and paid SSMS Addins)
- SSMS Snippets
- SSMS Shortcuts (More than 300 Shortcuts)
- SSMS Tips (Complete guide about hidden gems of SSMS)
Scripts
- Awesome SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries (by Glenn Alan Berry)
  - SQL Server 2017 Diagnostic Information Queries
  - SQL Server 2016 Diagnostic Information Queries
  - SQL Server 2014 Diagnostic Information Queries
  - SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries
  - SQL Server 2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
  - SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
- Table count alternative (by Jes Schultz Borland)
- Foreign Key batch rename (by Wes Henriksen)
- Count character matches
- and many others...
Stored Procedure
- sp_DBPermissions (by Kenneth Fisher)
- sp_SrvPermissions (by Kenneth Fisher)
- sp_RestoreGene (by Paul Brewer)
- usp_who5 (by Sean Smith)
- usp_String_Search (by Sean Smith)
- usp_BulkUpload
- usp_TableUnpivot
- and many others...
User Defined Function
- udf_parseJSON
- udf_RenderXMLToString
- udf_RTF2Text
- udf_SplitStringByDelimiter
- udf_Tally
- and many others...
Utilities (Complete list of 260 SQL Server paid and free Utilities and Tools)

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SQL Server Web Resources

Blogs
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
  - PunkSPIDER – Lots of vulnerabilities of all kinds all over the web (about 90M sites scanned with over 3M vulns at present)
  - 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)
- SQL Server Database Engine Permission 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
- 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 Redgate Videos
- Dell DBA days the Brent Ozar Unlimited 2015
- Dell DBA days the Brent Ozar Unlimited 2016
- User Group.tv (by Shawn Weisfeld)
- SQLPass Virtual Chapters
- Youtube SQLpassion
- SQLBits Video
- Business Intelligence Videos
- Pragmatic Works Free Training Webinars
- Youtube Pragmatic Works Video (by Devin Knight and Manuel Quintana)
- MVP: Data Platform
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)
- Midnight DBA Podcast (by Sean and Jen McCown)
- 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 Down Under Podcast (by Greg Low)
Courses
- Free
- 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)
SQL Server Backwards Compatibility
SQL Server System Views Map
- SQL Server 2008 System Views Map
- SQL Server 2012 System Views Map
Microsoft Troubleshooting and security guides
Social, Forum and Messenger SQL Server Groups
- SQLServerCentral Forum (more than 10^6 People)
- Slack #sqlhelp (more than 700 People)
- Slack #firstresponderkit (more then 70 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 (434 People, Russian)
- SQLcom.ru telegram channel (284 People, Russian)
Open Source Projects
- Brent Ozar SQL Server First Responder Kit (Github)
- SQL Server Maintenance Solution (by Ola Hallengren) (Github)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Other
- 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 Injection Cheat Sheet (by Ferruh Mavituna)
- RSS Most Recent SQL Server KBs
- Stackoverflow SQL Anti Patterns
- Azure Speed (by Blair Chen)
- SQLFiddle
- 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)
- SDUTools - Free Tools for DBAs and Developers on pure TSQL (by SQL Down Under)
- 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)

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BIML Resources and Bloggers

BIML - Business Intelligence Markup Language

BIML Resources

BIML Bloggers

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SQL Server Sample Databases and Datasets

Alternative download link for some sample databases: http://bit.ly/ya-ssk

AdventureWorks Sample Databases and Scripts for SQL Server 2017, 2016, 2014 , 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SR1 Sample Databases
Thinking Big (Adventure) (by Adam Machanic)
WideWorldImporters Sample Database (Github Microsoft)
IoT Smart Grid sample - demonstrates how SQL Server 2016 memory optimized databases could be used to ingest a very high input data rate (Github Microsoft)
In-Memory OLTP (WWI Sales Orders) (Github Microsoft)
Bigger Fact Table for Wide World Importers (by Koen Verbeeck)
Contoso Retail Data Warehose (Github)
How to Download the Stack Overflow Database via BitTorrent 2016-03 (by Brent Ozar)
Updating the Stack Overflow Demo Database version 2016-12-15
Stackexchange Source files - xml files
Amazon product data (This dataset contains product reviews and metadata from Amazon, including 142.8 million reviews spanning May 1996 - July 2014)
Git repo for SQL Server Reporting Services samples and community projects
SQLSkills sample databases (also include SAMPLE CORRUPT DATABASES)
SQLIndexWorkbook Sample Database (by Little Kendra)
Data.gov
Itzik Ben-Gan Sample Databases (by Itzik Ben-Gan)
Orders: Open Source Sample Database (by Brent Ozar)
BabbyNames Database (by Kendra Little)
SQL Server Sakila DB (by jOQO)

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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
Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool (by Clint Huffman)
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)

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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/

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SQL Server Test Data Generation

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/generating-test-data-in-tsql/
http://www.yandataellan.com/
https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbmonster/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/spawner/
http://databene.org/databene-benerator
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/591892/tools-for-generating-mock-data

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Free SQL Server, 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!
Microsoft MVA Free ebooks
OnlineVideoLectures ebooks
Brent Ozar ebooks
E-books SQL Server Directory
TOAD SQL Server ebooks
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)

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)

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