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 ...

Enter the SQL Profiler. This monitoring tool is designed to trace any activity that occurs on a SQL Server database server.

The much-used Microsoft SQL Profiler is a tool headed toward obsolescence. What options are available once the tool is deprecated? We examine SQL Server Extended Events as a possibility. The ...

Second, SQL Server 2000’s Profiler introduces template files, which replace both the Create Trace Wizard and the storage of trace definitions in the Registry.

Embarcadero, a provider of multi-platform database tools, is adding more graphical capabilities to DB Optimizer to make it easier for developers and DBAs to do SQL profiling and tuning. DB Optimizer, ...

DB Optimizer 1.5 is the newest version of Embarcadero’s SQL profiling and tuning IDE. New features include continuous profiling, full multi-platform support, a revamped interface and full ...

I have a cloud hosted (Rackspace) Windows server running SQL 2008 R2 Express, which is supposedly limited to using 1 GB of RAM. Performance has not been what we wanted, so we had Rackspace deploy ...