Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
Monitoring Running Traces
SQL Server 2008 provides some additional built-in user-defined functions to get information about currently running traces. Like the fn_trace_gettable function discussed previously, these functions return the information as a tabular result. The available functions are as follows:
• fn_trace_getinfo(trace_id)—This function is passed a traceid, and it returns information about the specified trace. If passed the value of default, it returns information about all existing traces. An example of the output from this function is shown in Listing 6.3.
• fn_trace_geteventinfo(trace_id)—This function returns a list of the events and data columns being captured for the specified trace. Only the event and column ID values are ...
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