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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 ...

Any serious Power BI developer should have it installed already, but if you have an older version you may need to update it to get the features I talk about in this post. You can generate SQL Server ...

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.