Here is a look at the best tools available today, as well as a quick introduction to what an SQL database actually is for the uninitiated.

Spotlight Cloud makes it easy for teams to solve complex SQL Server performance issues and reduce IT costs, and as a SaaS platform, enables reduced human labor on managing the monitoring tool itself.

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 ...

Database performance tools can identify bottlenecks and points of contention, monitor workload and throughput, review SQL performance and optimization, monitor storage space and fragmentation, and ...

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

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput ...