Here is a look at the best tools available today, as well as a quick introduction to what an SQL database actually is for the uninitiated.

dbForge tools for SQL Server now offer full support for SQL Server 2025, enabling smooth and reliable database operations - all while maintaining high performance and productivity.

Redgate is releasing a major upgrade for its popular tool, SQL Prompt, helping developers increase the speed and quality of their SQL coding and take advantage of the most recent improvements in SQL ...

What the SQL Server performance tools do better than Activity Monitor is aggregating data and highlighting outlier behavior.

Database performance tools can identify bottlenecks and points of contention, monitor workload and throughput, review SQL performance and optimization, monitor storage space and fragmentation, and ...

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

While the query store is a fantastic tool for monitoring query performance, it has also become the center of a number of features around automatic tuning in SQL Server (more on this below).

Microsoft said SSMA can process up to 10,000 Oracle objects in one migration and boasts increased performance and report generation. The new tool supports migrations of Oracle 9i databases and later ...