May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
815 pages
21h 55m
English
book
SQL Server® 2008 Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Tom Carpenter
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SQL Server Profiler
The SQL Server Profiler is a tool that is used to monitor database and server activity in a SQL Server environment. The DBA can use it to capture all the queries being executed against a database or just to capture the logins to the server or any number of other tasks. Literally, hundreds of columns (properties) and events (actions) can be traced to determine where problems or performance issues reside.
As an example, imagine you are the DBA for an outsourced application and you do not have the source code for the client application or the design plans for the database structure. In such a scenario, you have no knowledge of what exact queries are being executed against the database. However, you can discover these queries—and ...