Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Data Columns

The columns of information captured in a Profiler trace are determined by the Data Columns selected. The Events Selection tab has the functionality you need to add columns, organize the columns, and apply filters on the data returned in these columns. As mentioned earlier, you can select and deselect the available columns for a particular event by using the check boxes displayed for the listed events. To understand what kind of information a column is going to return, you can simply mouse over the column, and Help for that item is displayed in the second Help box below the event list. Figure 6.4 shows an example of the Help output. In this particular case, the mouse pointer is over the ApplicationName column returned for the SQL:BatchCompleted ...