SQL Server Profiler has always been a great tool for tracing activity “under the hood” on a SQL Server and assessing its performance. One feature that helps us quickly set up a trace on our ...

Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today announced the availability of SQL XEvent Profiler 1.0, a free tool that allows DBAs to create, run and view SQL ...

For SQL Server, the easiest and most effective method for tracking server activity is the built-in Profiler application. It’s easy to set up SQL Profiler and you can maintain and run it from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forget the mouse and I just don’t trust those Wizards”. Microsoft has gone a long way to change that perception with some productive management tools and Wizards that are better in SQL Server ...

When SQL Server Management Studio is already open, the easiest way to open SQL Profiler is to click on the Tools dropdown menu. Then select "SQL Server Profiler" from the menu.

On June 20th, the Microsoft SQL Server team dropped the most recent release of SQL Operations Studio to the public. This is just one of many, many product announcements that demonstrate Microsoft's ...