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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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Stopping Server-Side Traces

It is important to keep track of the traces you have running and to ensure that “heavy” traces are stopped. Heavy traces are typically traces that capture a lot of events and are run on a busy SQL Server. These traces can affect the overall performance of your SQL Server machine and write a large amount of information to the trace output file. If you specified a stop time when you started the trace, it automatically stops and closes when the stop time is reached. For example, in the SQL script in Listing 6.2, if you wanted the trace to run for 15 minutes instead of indefinitely, you would set the value for the stoptime variable at the beginning of the script, using a command similar to the following:

set @stoptime ...

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