Profiler Usage Scenarios
This chapter has covered many of the technical aspects of SQL Profiler, but what about some practical applications? Beyond the obvious uses of identifying what SQL an application is submitting, this section takes a look at a few scenarios in which the SQL Profiler can be useful. These scenarios are presented to give you some ideas of how SQL Profiler can be used. The monitoring and analysis capabilities of SQL Profiler are limited only by your creativity and ingenuity.
Analyzing Slow Stored Procedures or Queries
After you have identified that a particular stored procedure is running slow, what should you do next? You might want to look at the estimated execution plan for the stored procedure, looking for table scans and ...
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