Microsoft [!INCLUDE [ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] provides objects and counters that can be used by System Monitor to monitor activity in computers ...

The **SQLServer:General Statistics** object in [!INCLUDE [ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] provides counters to monitor general server-wide activity ...

xSQL Software, a provider of SQL Server auxiliary tools and utilities, announced today the availability of xSQL Object 1.5, a utility for SQL Server database administrators and developers that ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

With SQL Server 2016, you can store JSON objects in your rows. Here’s how to work with JSON objects, including how to update them once you’ve found them. In a previous Practical .NET column I showed ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...