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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization

by Kalen Delaney, Sunil Agarwal, Craig Freedman, Ron Talmage, Adam Machanic
September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
13h 52m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization

Chapter 2. Tracing and Profiling

Adam Machanic

In this chapter:
SQL Trace Architecture and Terminology57
Security and Permissions59
Getting Started: Profiler61
Server-Side Tracing and Collection69
Troubleshooting and Analysis with Traces79
Tracing Considerations and Design96
Auditing: SQL Server’s Built-in Traces100
Summary102

Query tuning, optimization, and general troubleshooting are all made possible through visibility into what’s going on within SQL Server; it would be impossible to fix problems without being able to identify what caused them. SQL Trace and SQL Server Profiler, some of the most powerful tools provided by SQL Server, can give you a real-time or near real-time peek into exactly what the database engine is up to, at a very granular ...

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