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 today announces new editions of SQL Sentry, the company’s top-rated database performance monitoring product, to help companies select the monitoring ...

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 ...

There are plenty of ways to get the most out of SQL Server without just upgrading to the latest version. For database admins working with older (maybe much older) SQL Server systems, here are four ...

OCZ Technology has started offering to beta testers is ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL ...

Since SQL Server on Linux is still pre-GA, Quest is supporting an earlier build and, as it goes GA, Quest will do the same, said Davoll. “We are on the early bandwagon and want to make sure that, as ...