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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
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Tracing Considerations and Design

Although SQL Trace was both designed and tested with high efficiency in mind, users must remember that it can be made to do quite a large amount of work. Collecting millions of events per minute on an extremely busy server can be taxing to all server resources—from memory to store the buffers, to network bandwidth if the rowset provider is used, to I/O if the file provider is used. This does not mean that SQL Trace should not be used on an active system; to the contrary, SQL Trace is a fantastic tool for tracking down issues even on the busiest of database servers. However, application of a bit of forethought and planning is necessary in order to ensure that your tracing session successfully answers your questions ...

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