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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

by Ritesh Shah
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Creating trace with system stored procedures

What if you have no SQL Server Profiler installed on your machine and want to create a trace? What if you have SQL Server Profiler installed but the executable binary file of SQL Server Profiler is corrupted and cannot be run? What if you want to automate completely the process of capturing trace data as per your defined schedules so that you do not have to be physically present to start and stop the traces? Is it possible to create a trace in this manner without SQL Server Profiler?

The answer is yes. You can do this. SQL Server provides T-SQL system stored procedures to deal with SQL Trace. This capability enables us to write code that can create traces programmatically. By using SQL Trace system ...

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