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 ...

SQL Server performance is slow. Users are complaining. Your boss wants to know what's going on and what you can do to improve SQL Server performance. Where do you start? Which SQL Server query should ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentryOne launched SQL Sentry Essentials, a new edition of the company’s top-rated SQL Sentry database monitoring product that provides core monitoring capabilities ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentryOne launched SQL Sentry Essentials, a new edition of the company’s top-rated SQL Sentry database monitoring product that provides core monitoring capabilities ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

IDERA, a provider of database productivity tools, is releasing SQL Diagnostic Manager with the new SQL Query Tuner, optimizing SQL queries and indexes for SQL Server. The release also adds MySQL ...