I decided to expand on this blog to include helpful resources that I have ran across that

1. Has helped me along in my career by someone in the SQL Community
2. Has been created by myself that has helped me in one form or other
3. Has been read in an article or white paper with the appropriate link that was a good read.

Feel free to browse and I will do my best to keep the links active and to separate them out into appropriate categories.

Forums

• Stack Overflow
• SQL Server Central

SSIS

• Managing and Deploying SQL Server Integration Services 
• Jason Strate’s 31 days of SSIS
• SSIS Tools from CodePlex
• Andy Leanord’s SSIS Catalog

Maintenance / Performance Tools

• SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
• SQL Cop
• SQL Query Stress
• SP_WhoIsActive (Adam Machanic’s DMV-based monitoring stored procedure)

Utility Tools

• ClearTrace
• SSMS Boost
• sp_Blitz (Brent Ozar’s exploratory script on servers – highly recommend it)
• sp_BlitzIndex (Kendra Little’s Index Sanity Test)
• sp_Blitz App
• Glenn Berry’s Diagnostic Queries

Red Gate Tools

• SQL Compare
• SQL Index Manager
• SQL ToolBelt
• SQL Source Control
• SQL CI
• SQL Automation Pack
• SQL Lighthouse
• SQL Release
• Full Listing of all Products

SQL Sentry Tools

• Plan Explorer
• Event Manager

PowerShell Tools

• DBATools