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Professional SQL Server® 2005 Performance Tuning
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Professional SQL Server® 2005 Performance Tuning

by Steven Wort, Christian Bolton, Justin Langford, Michael Cape, Joshua J. Jin, Douglas Hinson, Haidong Ji, Paul A. Mestemaker, Arindam Sen
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
575 pages
16h 10m
English
Wrox
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Chapter 10. Capturing, Measuring, and Replaying a Workload Using SQL Profiler

A system's performance can be measured at any time with any workload. A workload contains rich data for a specific scenario and time period. In this chapter, a workload refers to SQL trace output data that can be replayed by SQL 2005 Profiler. Analyzing trace events in a workload helps with troubleshooting, performance tuning, and measuring database usage data for capacity planning. Using SQL Profiler to capture, measure, and replay a workload provides an inexpensive approach to establish and compare SQL Server performance baselines.

This chapter covers the necessary building blocks for using SQL Profiler to replay a workload. After learning how to capture, measure, and replay a workload, you will walk through three usage scenarios. The first scenario demonstrates a process using the Profiler's replay feature to measure the overall performance gain for a workload. The second scenario compares the result of using workload replays on different SQL server configurations. The last scenario demonstrates using Profiler to send multiple workloads to a single server.

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