Performance Monitor – Windows Performance Monitor (Perfmon) is another general-purpose server monitoring tool, which helps in monitoring CPU usage, disk I/O and memory usage. It also provides ...

Learn how to monitor SQL Server performance in real-time with key metrics and proactive strategies for Business Intelligence success.

In [Part 1][part1] of this series, we covered a number of features that SQL Server provides for optimizing its resource usage. You can, for example, adjust the way your query batches are compiled, ...

Redgate is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced query identification, optimization ...

In general, in the SQL Server database, queries that have parameterization problems (replacing literal values with placeholder variables to prevent creating multiple duplicate plans for the same query ...

The expanded support provides visibility into query-level metrics and detailed explain plans so all Microsoft customers can benefit from Database Monitoring With this expanded support, engineers ...

Choosing Edit Query Text opens this SQL in new query windows. Eventually, Activity Monitor is a simple but powerful tool that allows the database administrator to quickly determine and solve most ...

Joey on SQL Server Why Activity Monitor May Be Hurting Your SQL Server's Performance As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data.