July sits at the midpoint of the year, and for SQL Server DBAs, that makes it one of the most strategically important months on the calendar. Q3 brings renewed project activity, end-of-summer pushes, and the beginning of budget conversations that set the tone for Q4. If your databases are carrying hidden problems right now, those problems will surface at the worst possible time. A midyear database health review is not about finding catastrophic failures. It is about finding the slow …

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