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.

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

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 ...

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

With SQL Query Store Optimizer, we’re helping DBAs improve the performance of complex queries, and make their work less complicated.” IDERA now has more than 22 free tools in its portfolio of ...

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.

If you are on a version of SQL Server older than 2016, you may want to look for a third-party performance tool to help you get this information.

Big data vendor Databricks unveiled SQL Analytics for running SQL queries on data lake systems as an alternative to data warehouses.