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 ...

Find out how to extract Showplan events from a trace so that SQL Server Profiler displays query plan information. View a table of Showplan trace events. [!INCLUDE SQL Server] You can add Showplan ...

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 ...

[!INCLUDE [SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance](../../includes/applies-to-version/sql-asdbmi.md)] Use [!INCLUDE[ssSqlProfiler](../../includes/sssqlprofiler-md.md ...

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 ...