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SQL Server 2005 Lost Profiler Events

Author
28 Oct 2006 3:33 PM
Cgal
In SQL Server 2005, is it possible for the SQL Server profiler to miss
events?  This was the case in SQL Server 2000 in a heavily used environment.
The fix was to do a server side trace.  Does the same problem exist in SQL
Server 2005?

Author
28 Oct 2006 10:16 PM
Erland Sommarskog
Cgal (cgallelli@newsgroups.nospam) writes:
> In SQL Server 2005, is it possible for the SQL Server profiler to miss
> events?  This was the case in SQL Server 2000 in a heavily used
> environment. The fix was to do a server side trace.  Does the same
> problem exist in SQL Server 2005?

One would surely hope so, or else a trace with too many events over
a slow line could bring a server to a halt.


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Author
29 Oct 2006 2:28 AM
Kalen Delaney
Yes, Profiler is not intended to be used for your production applications.
That is why you have server side traces. It can lose events and drastically
slow your server down.

A nice change in SQL 2005 is that you can use Profiler open up the file you
are using to capture the server side trace, even while the trace is running.

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HTH
Kalen Delaney, SQL Server MVP
http://sqlblog.com


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"Cgal" <cgallelli@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> In SQL Server 2005, is it possible for the SQL Server profiler to miss
> events?  This was the case in SQL Server 2000 in a heavily used
> environment. The fix was to do a server side trace.  Does the same problem
> exist in SQL Server 2005?
>

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