Creating a trace or workload
If you have never worked with SQL Server Profiler, this recipe will teach you how to create and start your first SQL Trace. There is some detailed information on SQL Trace in There's more... section of this recipe. This will help you in appreciating rest of the recipes quite easily, which employs SQL Trace in remaining chapters. The section covers the information that will help you in mastering core concepts of SQL Trace and thus mastering SQL Server Profiler. There are no major changes in SQL Server Profiler 2012 documented. In SQL Server 2012, the architecture and functionality of SQL Server Profiler is almost identical to that of SQL Server 2008.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will create our first trace with SQL ...
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