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 ...

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A small social media poll from Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen split respondents over whether the IDE should add more database tooling, while the discussion quickly turned to existing SQL project ...

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Microsoft’s Azure-based AI development and deployment platform shines with a strong selection of models and agent types and an excellent playground for experimenting with agents.

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Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates from the servers of its developer, researchers said Tuesday.

As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward.

PowerToys 0.99 adds new monitor and window-management tools for Windows users, plus updates to Command Palette, Keyboard Manager, ZoomIt, and Image Resizer. Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.99, ...