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 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentryOne announced the general availability of SQL Sentry Premium, a new edition of its flagship database performance monitoring solution. With the introduction of ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IDERA (a division of Idera, Inc.), a provider of powerful database productivity tools, today announced a major release of SQL Diagnostic Manager. This release introduces the ...

The better your SQL database performs, the more effectively it will fulfill its purpose of providing information to the apps and services that rely upon it to function. Optimizing database performance ...

SolarWinds has expanded its database performance management portfolio with the launch of SolarWinds Database Insights for SQL Server. Uniting the features and functionality of the SolarWinds Database ...

Redgate is releasing SQL Monitor 9.1, with new features including an expanded API to help fine-tune alerting through Microsoft PowerShell and a unique permissions function. These updates support ...

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New Relic added a free server monitoring service to its application performance management tool. The new service will measure CPU, memory, network activity and processes. New Relic already offered ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...