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 current ...

IDERA today announced the availability of SQL Data Profiler, a free tool with a focus on the needs of data architects.

SQL Server 2008 Integration Services ships with the wonderful new Data Profiling Task. Much as the name implies, it profiles the data in a given table and returns a ton of useful information. The task ...

SQL Profiler and SQL Trace: These two features are the graphic and textual interface to trace SQL Server performance data by capturing and saving details about a given set of trig­gering “events.” ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...

In the past, the question of how to perform auditing under SQL Server has had a simple answer: Do it yourself. But now, SQL Server 2000 has eased the burden of auditing by introducing an extensive and ...

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.

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 ...

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.

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...