After the conference season, we go back to the regular format of events, blogs, forum discussions and other goodies.

Here's some of the topics we cover:

Is index maintenance still necessary in 2013?

How to really monitor page splits?

"Smelly" code

What CXPacket really means and how can we leverage it

Past and future events

We also have a very interesting "top 10" list, and much more..

Links mentioned in the show:

Next Israeli SQL Server User Group meeting

Previous Israeli SQL Server User Group meeting

An index build takes a long time when a SQL Server database backup is running

Guy Glantser - Forty Things You Didn’t Know About SQL Server

The Data Loading Performance Guide

Ola Hallengren's Index and Statistics Maintenance Script

#FiveWordTechHorrors

Eitan Blumin - Service Broker Sample: Asynchronous Triggers

Matan Yungman - Using CXPacket Waits to Detect Query Bottlenecks

Michael J. Swart - Overly Complex Views, Procedures And Functions

Matan Yungman - Finding The Needle In The Haystack