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 ...

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 ...

Ok, so my current company has no real monitoring, at all (yes, I know). It hurts. We are, thankfully getting SCOM 2012 soon, so general OS monitoring will be taken care of for perfmon type counters ...

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