Consolidating links and resources

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:

Bad Habits & Best Practices

/bad-habits

So, you want to use MERGE, eh?

/merge

Dating Responsibly

/dates

Splitting strings

/split

I'm using NOLOCK; is that bad?

/nolock

Using SQL Server on a Mac

/sql-server-mac

Resources for Dynamic SQL

/dynamic-sql

AddWithValue adds no value

/addwithvalue

SQL Server 2022 Resources

/sql-server-2022

Asking good database questions

/ask

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 top 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.

Aaron Bertrand

I am a passionate technologist with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. I am a long-time Microsoft MVP, write at SQLPerformance and MSSQLTips, and have had the honor of speaking at more conferences than I can remember. In non-tech life, I am a father of two, a huge hockey and football fan, and my pronouns are he/him. If I've helped you out, consider thanking me with a coffee. :-)