For a long time, I have been seeing the same SQL Server questions come up over and over again on Stack Overflow and Database Administrators. Two decades ago, I started blogging to reduce the amount of work I was doing to help guide users to the right solutions (except, back then, it wasn't Stack Exchange, it was newsgroups and mailing lista).
I took a little break from Q & A this year. When I got back into it more recently, I discovered I was once again scrambling to assemble the right (and most current) links for, say, advising people to stay away from MERGE
. So, I made some landing pages here, with simple and easy-to-remember URLs, presenting a small set of links to further reading on the topic. So far, these are the landing pages I've put together:
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/bad-habits-nun-featured.jpg)
/bad-habits
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/merge-thumbs-down-featured.jpg)
/merge
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nolock-garbage-truck-featured.jpg)
/nolock
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/string-splitter-featured.jpg)
/split
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sql-injection-featured.jpg)
/dynamic-sql
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dating-responsibly-feat-large.jpg)
/dates
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/docker-featured.jpg)
/sql-server-mac
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sql-server-2022-featured.png)
/sql-server-2022
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/question-mark-featured.jpg)
/ask
![](https://sqlblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/disclaimers-featured.jpg)
/disclaimer
Can't remember sqlblog.org/split
? No problem. If you can remember sqlblog.org
, you can probably remember sqlblog.org/go
, or just come to the home page and click on "shortcuts" in the nav.
Personally, I use a program called Unclutter on my Mac as an effectively infinite clipboard, and have the URLs stored there permanently, even though I doubt I'll ever forget any of these ones. If you find you're searching for a URL more than once, it might be handy to use some kind of productivity app.