Activity Monitor is a built-in tool which allows an administrator to perform a quick analysis of the database state. The tool is a part of SQL Server Management Studio, so it doesn’t require any ...

[Activity Monitor](activity-monitor.md) runs queries on the monitored instance to obtain information for the Activity Monitor display panes. When the refresh interval is set to less than 10 seconds, ...

Block Busting SQL Server Activity Monitor can help you identify locking and blocking issues. Closely watch the Wait Time, Wait Type, Wait Resource and Blocked By values for listed processes.

Sentrigo Adds Microsoft SQL Server Support to Its Hedgehog Database Activity Monitoring Software Major new release includes module for rapid implementation of PCI DSS, SOX, SAS 70 database compliance ...

This article gives an overview and offers a practical tips to detecting some suspicious activities in Microsoft SQL Server, from configuring audit policies to leveraging Elastic for effective ...

Profiler is a bit old-school though and likely to lead to snarky comments from SQL Server DBAs (it’s not deprecated for Analysis Services though!) who’ll say you should be using Extended Events (aka ...

Open Activity Monitor in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] Activity Monitor runs queries on the monitored instance to obtain information for the Activity Monitor display panes.