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SQL SERVER – 2008 – Location of Activity Monitor – Where is SQL Serve Activity Monitor Located

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I received question from Aloke Sinha after reading my article SQL SERVER – 2008 – Activity Monitor is Empty – Fix Activity Monitor for All Users. He could not find the location of Activity Monitor under the Tools menu.

Hello Pinalbhai,

Thank you for your post about activity monitor, but I can not find activity monitor under Menu — Tools. How to activate it?

[Other unrelated information removed]

Take care,
Aloke Sinha

The reason I decided to write about this subject is because I totally understand why Aloke is confused here. Activity Monitor can not be activated from any menu from top menu bar. There are two different methods to activate Activity Monitors.

From Standard Toolbar (Standard Toolbar can be made visible from here : Menu >> View >> Toolbar >> Standard) and from “Right Click” of SQL Server Node.

SQL Server Management Studio Activity Monitor.

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  • Sharon Smith
    November 5, 2009 8:30 pm

    Thank you for this posting.

    The SQL 2008 BOL states Activity Monitor is in the Management section of Object Explorer, which is of course wrong.

    Quite a nice tool – now I can actually find it!

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  • Sumit Jolly
    June 27, 2014 8:45 am

    Hi Pinal, is it same like sp_who

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  • Terezinha
    June 3, 2015 11:38 pm

    Activity Monitor do not open. Error: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.ResourceMonitoring…

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