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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 ...

Back in December when I wrote a series of posts on testing the performance of Power BI reports in the browser, I mentioned that it was important to test in the browser because some aspects of the ...

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This post is authored by Amit Banerjee, Principal PM Manager, SQL Server and Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft SQL Server Data Services. SQL Server has provided enterprises the capability to ...

The logs use the extended events file format. The `sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file` system function can be used to read the files that are created by Extended Events and display them as a result-set.