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 ...

When I meet SQL Server professionals, I am always interested to find out if they have deployed the latest version of SQL Server into production yet, if they are using Enterprise Edition, and, if so, ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 — Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, has announced expanded monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure database platforms.

As data and databases become more central to business success, the job of the database administrator (DBA) is growing in importance. At the same time, however, the role is getting much harder.