• Overhauled memory management for vacuuming, resulting in significantly lower memory usage and running time. More on this here.
• Incremental backup support.
• Faster B-tree index scans.
• MERGE enhancements, including view support.
• New functions to extract elements from UUIDs.
• WAL improvements – up to 2x write throughput on some workloads.
• Improvements to SQL/JSON support, including JSON_TABLE.
• Bulk loading improvements and perf improvements for COPY which gains the ON_ERROR ignore option to ignore errors.
• Identity columns on partitioned tables.

SQL SERVER 2016 – New T-SQL Functions – COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS 

SQL SERVER – Free SQL Complete Add-in For SSMS

SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting with SQL Monitor 4 

- Tigertoolbox
- The SQL Server Maintenance Solution 
- dbatools 
- Microsoft SQL Server Samples Repository
- SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit

Rider 2018.3.1 comes with fixes for:

Several issues in the debugger: RIDER-23087, RIDER-22932, RIDER-22770, RIDER-22887, and RIDER-22873.
Broken NuGet window after searching for “mongo” text (RIDER-22927).
Endless “Retrieving properties…” progress bar for Project Properties (RIDER-22924).
Inability to activate the dotTrace plugin via the License Server (RIDER-22876).
The “Failed to get the list of simulators” error on getting a list of iOS simulators (RIDER-22878).
The issue where a .jar setting file couldn’t be imported to Rider 2018.3 (RIDER-22823).
The misplaced position of inline parameter name hints (RIDER-22452).