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

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 ...

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).

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.

Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation.

Microsoft said SSMA can process up to 10,000 Oracle objects in one migration and boasts increased performance and report generation. The new tool supports migrations of Oracle 9i databases and later ...