One feature that helps us quickly set up a trace on our current connection is new in SSMS 2008, namely “Trace Query in SQL Server Profiler”. Let’s take a look.

The flaw shows up in the use of SQL Profiler in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to audit connections to SQL Server 2000 by using the Audit Login event class. When log-in names contain leading zero ...

These were first introduced in SQL Server 2008, but didn't really catch on until SQL Server 2008 R2. The second is SQL Server profiler, which is available to every version of SQL Server starting ...

The much-used Microsoft SQL Profiler is a tool headed toward obsolescence. What options are available once the tool is deprecated? We examine SQL Server Extended Events as a possibility. The ...

Brian Egler MCSE/MCT is a Microsoft SQL Server Course Director for Global Knowledge. He has more than 15 years' experience with SQL Server. Every year he runs the Boston Marathon for cancer research.

Users simply: 1) connect to an SQL Server instance, 2) select a database, 3) select a table, 4) optionally adjust profiling settings, 5) press a button, and 6) view the results.