What the SQL Server performance tools do better than Activity Monitor is aggregating data and highlighting outlier behavior.

Depending on the other services installed, you may also have access to a variety of performance counters for that service, including SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services. PerfMon also allows ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

If you are on a version of SQL Server older than 2016, you may want to look for a third-party performance tool to help you get this information.

Microsoft, apparently trying to enhance every product it has with an AI-powered Copilot, announced a new one for the latest release of SQL Server Developer Tools (SSDT) in Visual Studio.

Dell Software updated five different tools for monitoring, managing, protecting and boosting the performance of SQL Server databases, highlighted by version 11 of its Spotlight on SQL Server ...

Big data vendor Databricks unveiled SQL Analytics for running SQL queries on data lake systems as an alternative to data warehouses.

To enable organizations to get the most value out of any database, anywhere, Redgate SQL Monitor now offers support for SQL Server on Linux.

SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL is an agentless monitoring tool that provides real-time insights to optimize MySQL and MariaDB server performance.