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 ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, today announced full integration of ApexSQL since it was acquired by ...

[1] For HDFS and Azure Blob Storage only(For SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 only). [2] For tail of the log only (For SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 only). [3] SQL Server Enterprise edition only.

I have a need to compare multiple different versions of essentially the same SQL Server 2005+ databases and bring the table structures up to that which is in the newest version. It should compare the ...