Joey on SQL Server Why Activity Monitor May Be Hurting Your SQL Server's Performance As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some ...

SQL Monitor then supplies guidance and recommendations to aid in remediating problem queries, tracking ongoing performance over time. The tool measures queries based on a variety of factors that can ...

ApexSQL Audit: Offers a tamper-protected auditing tool that can be configured to monitor SQL Server for changes in configuration, schema or data. ApexSQL Mask: Adds the ability to mask non ...

Google for "SQL Monitoring tools" and you get plenty of hits for products that can watch the actual DBs, including transactions, locks, etc. That may or may not be what you are looking for.

A 14-day, fully-functional free trial of SQL Monitor is available to enable IT teams to discover how the tool can now help them monitor their SQL Servers on-premises, in the cloud, on Windows, or ...

In October 2023, Redgate Software enhanced its SQL Monitor tool by adding support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and on-premises PostgreSQL, offering improved monitoring capabilities for cloud and ...

The tool's Always Encrypted functionality was also improved, as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled " Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 21." ...