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 ...

So we have (for example) 1,000 clients.<BR><BR>We collect lots of data from these clients and in turn provide detailed reports and key performance indicators for how they are doing compared to ...

Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

Redgate Software is launching a new version of its SQL Server monitoring tool to enable accelerated analysis of SQL Server problems. The platform, SQL Monitor, is a web based SQL Server alerting and ...

I'm looking to see how people monitor SQL jobs.<BR><BR>I've inherited the backup procedure where we create jobs to backup to local storage and use a backup agent to grab them every night. I don't have ...

New BI and reporting features in SQL Server 2008 R2 hit the mark, but other additions leave SQL Server shops wanting more With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft begins to fully realize its ...