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 ...

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 ...

The database utility dba_BlockTracer extracts data about the running processes by inspecting the system view sys.sysprocesses. This view then queries the underlying system table sysprocesses. CREATE ...