Ok, I've changed the whole paragraph to:
"To display queries from the logs, select the relevant time span on
any chart by holding down the left mouse button and panning over the
chart. Once confirmed, this will load a table of grouped queries,
there you may click on any occuring SELECT statements to further
analyze them."
This is shorter and should be more clear, I hope :)
Well, I liked the idea of "sudden spike of activity".
It's a good example but probably doesn't quite represent what a
database administrator should be doing (as in staring at the screen
looking for activity spikes all day long ;-), meaning it could also be
under permanent heavy load.
Do you plan to add a bold title for this paragraph?
That would look not harmonic to me. That paragraph should be read as
part of the 'Using the Monitor'-"chapter", but putting a bold line
above there would make it look like it's not part of 'Using the
Monitor'. Then I would need to make the other bold lines in a bigger
font, which might not look the same nice.
Does that make sense somehow? :)