Comments on: SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler

By: vinod

vinod — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:19:15 +0000

sql server 2008 profiler.exe not start error having the application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b)

By: Jamil HASHIM

Jamil HASHIM — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:16:30 +0000

this is nice as a starter; very clear and the fact that you say there is more to read makes it more comprehensive as well

By: tanveer

tanveer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:49:56 +0000

Hi,
I have a question about reading the trace table.

When I have gathered trace information in a table , how can I generate report on it?
for example I want to analyze queries by group etc

By: Chintan

Chintan — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:50:08 +0000

Can anyone say, how to use profiler from local machine, when application is actually launched and running from server. For such application SessionID on local machine remains 0 and I have checked for other filters like processID but that is also not working. I am running my desktop application which is actually launched from server and application instance is created on my local machine. I want to trace queries running from my application only, please help me
Thanks in advance

By: Kalim

Kalim — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:27:10 +0000

hi pinal,
We have created a trace file and default trace as well on production Server MSSQL2005 but when the services are restarted automatically trace gets disable. How to enable trace file permanently even if services are restarted. Kindly explain.

thanks in advance

By: Gopal

Gopal — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:57:21 +0000

Hi Alex,

Looks like to run the profiler you don’t need System Admin however ensure profiler is installed correctly. I donot have SA access but still i am able to access profiler without any issues.

By: Manohar

Manohar — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:03:11 +0000

Simply Superb!!

By: shiv

shiv — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:31:09 +0000

very good article :)

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:24:17 +0000

Nice Article, it will help a lot to understanding the Sql Profiler.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:20:16 +0000

Hi Sir,

I read your blog re Introduction to SQL Profiler 2008.

Our database (MS SQL 2000) will be migrated to (MS SQL 2008) soon. However, we wont be given a SA account or SA access so we might not be able to utilize SQL 2008 profiler. Is there a way around this? the SQL Profiler helps developers like me.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

By: Pratik

Pratik — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:59:31 +0000

Nice work pinal dave..your all artical is really good..

By: SUKHMEET

SUKHMEET — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:24:13 +0000

thanks sir,
you are doing a great job.thanks once again for your information.

By: Suhas

Suhas — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:54:27 +0000

Hello sir,

Nice post thanks

By: anand

anand — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:18:07 +0000

In template definition, you mentioned “SQL Server 2009″

Did I read it correct or it’s a typo.

By: Jacob Sebastian

Jacob Sebastian — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:20:00 +0000

As pinal said, traces are good and bad. They are good and useful if used correctly and they can be very bad if not correctly used.

I was playing with a SQL Server monitoring tool recently (to check the health of one of the servers) and the tool installed a trace silently, and gave us some trouble. I think the problem was that it installed a trace that captured ALL the events/activities and that added quite a lot of load on the server.

So it is very important that when running a trace on a production server, you need to make sure that only those events that are ‘necessary’ are captured in your trace.

By: Krunal

Krunal — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:42:16 +0000

Really Really Nice post…..

By: Ramdas

Ramdas — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:40:48 +0000

Hi Pinal,
Good one, I have found SQL Profiler to be very useful, used it in OLTP,SSRS environments a lot. I was recently introduced to SQL Server Profiler events which were specific to Analysis services, apparently these can be used to figure out How cube caches data and also check out performance of the cube. In the initial drop down for server type one would choose analysis services.