Joey on SQL Server Why Activity Monitor May Be Hurting Your SQL Server's Performance As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data.

Spotlight Cloud makes it easy for teams to solve complex SQL Server performance issues and reduce IT costs, and as a SaaS platform, enables reduced human labor on managing the monitoring tool itself.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft’s elastic, cloud-based data warehousing offering for big data workloads, is now offering its customers more detailed performance insights.