As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

Redgate, the Database DevOps solutions provider, is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced ...

Add Query Analyzer, SQL Profiler, Performance Monitor and good query-writing habits to your bag of tricks, and you may never have to worry about performance complaints again. Performance optimization ...

The expanded support provides visibility into query-level metrics and detailed explain plans so all Microsoft customers can benefit from Database Monitoring With this expanded support, engineers and ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

So we have (for example) 1,000 clients.<BR><BR>We collect lots of data from these clients and in turn provide detailed reports and key performance indicators for how they are doing compared to ...

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eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft’s elastic, cloud-based ...

Google’s new tool abstracts SQL into a visual interface, helping enterprises manage cloud workload insights without deep technical expertise. Google has added a new query builder to its Log Analytics ...