Here’s a bit of trivia—due to its Sybase heritage, SQL Server was the only Microsoft product to offer the CPU affinity and affinity masking configuration setting for decades. In those early days of ...

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 ...

That changed a bit with the release of 7.0: The client (which reads trace data) was renamed SQL Profiler, and the name SQL Trace was deemphasized. Now with SQL Server 2000, SQL Trace is back.

SQL Server has long offered a two-part toolkit for basic instrumentation of its engines, both relational and analytical: SQL Profiler and Windows Performance Monitor (PerfMon), also known as Windows ...

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 ...

The SQL Profiler has a neat Deadlock Graph feature which is very useful. Let’s take a look…. When SQL Server detects a deadlock, it has to do something about it.