I am trying to create a trace that informs me when a stored proc is created, modified or dropped in a particular database. The trace event I have selected is TSQL->SQL:StmtCompleted. The only filter I have in place is on database ID. The ID value is set to the database containing the stored proc's I want to monitor.
If I drop a proc, I get an entry in the Profiler. However, if I add or modify a proc, I get nothing. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
BTW, adding another filter on object ID (1 for sysobjects or 8 for syscomments) doesn't help either.
Hi I have a problem in my SQL Server 2005. This morning I got a message of "Low Disk Space" in the drive "C" of a virtual machine, when I looked at the directory: C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12DataMSSQL.4MSSQLData I found 454 sql server profiler - trace data files in that folder, one of them like this one: audittrace20080207220657_13.trc takes 204,800KB, and totally takes 89GB in that folder. That's why I got "Low Disk Space" I know that we need profiler to troubleshoot data, view the event...but these kind of .trc files were keep created in the "Data" folder in every 2 hours everyday and soon it will takes all the hard drive in the server. Is there anything I can set in SQL Server 2005 or other settings to delete the profile over 1 week or so automaticlly to free the space in the server?
There is a bug in one of the service packs where Profiler (7.0) only traces one server (regardless of the server you tell it to trace). Can anyone tell me how to fix this or point me to a KB article? I thought this was fixed in SQL 7 SP 3, however I'm experiencing this problem with SP3 installed.
We have several SQL servers in our network. When we try to connect to any of these servers with SQL profiler, the connection is always made with the same server, irrespective of the servername we use. There is no default server name used in the setting of SQL profiler application.
Is the security granularity in SQL Server 2005 good enough that I can allow certain users to have permissions to use Profiler ONLY on their database with out granting them sysadmin privilege? I know that it uses the master database which makes it complex. Thanks in advance.
I am trying to access SQL Server Profiler while connected via a VPN. I am able to connect while I am physically on the network but when I connect via the VPN it gives me the following error:
Cannot connect to xxx.xxx.xxx
Additional Information:
Login timeout expired An error has occured while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. Named Piped Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [53]. (pfutil90)
I am able to access the database and browse tables/run queries/etc. But only when I try to create a trace I get the error. Does SQL Profiler act funny when going through a VPN?
Dear friends, I got script for creation trace file on server drive. and it's work fine,when we migrate to sql server 2005 i take the same script for this trace and he create it successfully but the problem when i try to open this file for example today file: SQL-Server1 SQL Trace20080417000000847.trc I got the following message: Sql server profiler :failed to open a file ,access denied.
old files created by sql server 2000 ,i can open it until now but the file created after migrate to sql 2005 ,i got that message above.
But am also using the text data field but am trying to only bring back items that have a certain string like. Does anybody know how to use wild cards in the text data colounm
I have some questions about the SQL Server Profiler 2005.
1,haoI am using TransactionScope of .Net Frameworks 2.0 for DB query and update.I want to know the lock level(table,page,row,etc) and status of lock status(u,s,x,etc) by profiler tool when I run the query and update statement.How can I do?
2,I had got some traces when I run the DB query and update.But I cann't understand the meaning of the trace.such as Binary Data,ObjectID,Type,etc.How can I know the meaning of these?
My client wants to encrypt data using sql server 2005 encryption mechanism. But one of the core requirements is that the DBA should not be able to decrypt my data on the SQL Server.
I have opted for the EncryptByPassPhrase option. But here is my problem:
I call the encryptByPassPhrase function within my stored procedures and I pass in the pass phrase as a parameter in Stored Proc call from the client intranet application.
The problem is that one can clearly see the passphrase in the Profiler when I call my stored procedures.
I did a bunch of research and found out that if I added a commented out "sp_password" command in my stored procedure, then the stored procedure call gets masked from the profiler. This seem to have been true with SQL Server 2000 but is not true for SQL Server 2005.
Does anyone know of a method to mark a stored procedure -- or a parameter to a stored procedure -- as masked so that either the call or the parameter value are masked ?
I need to do testing on capturing connection coming from outside using Profiler. Basically I need to do something from other SQL servers connecting to this SQL server and test if it is captured by profiler.
I notice this running the SQL Server Profiler under the application name Report Server. Every time it runs, it reports an error (in the Error field of Profiler). Does anyone know what this is?declare @p1 nvarchar(64)set @p1=NULLexec GetDBVersion @DBVersion=@p1 outputselect @p1
Hi, I'm using SQL2005 v9.00.3042.00 (SP2) on Windows 2003. I have a situation, when I turn on and begin to trace a database using the "SQL server Profiler", that particular VB application that uses the databases freezes (hourglass) when user click on anywhere that require a data query (download list, etc.) until I either pause or stop the trace, what gives? Thanks in advance.
I'm investigating my production server because there appears a deadlock every day. So, in SQL Profiler, I use the the Deadlock graph to capture the trace in a file.
When I click on the textdata to see the graph an error appears: - Failed to initialize deadlock control. Cannot find process victim in process list.
I also get the following error from another deadlock: - Failed to initialize deadlock control. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I stopped my trace, so this can not be the problem.
Does anybody knows why I can't see the graph?
I also captured the trace in a table and then used the following query to see it in xml: select convert(xml,textdata) from TableName
Ok, I have installed SQL 2005 in about 10 or so production environments and have SQL Server Profiler installed and working on 2003 servers, but I cannot get Profiler installed on a SBS 2003 R2 Premium server. Does anyone know how to get Profiler installed on a SBS 2003 R2 Premium server?
I need a tool to see what transactions and in what order are being issued against the SQL Server Express 2005 DB.
Because of the SQL Server tools don't come with SQL Server Express 2005, then i run SQL Server 2000's Profiler with SQL Server Express 2005. But It prompt error "Failed to start a new trace".
FYI, i don't want to use the backend sql trace .in command prompt..
Pls advise me on how to run the sql profiler to trace the transaction being executed in SQL Express 2005?
I SQL Server 2005 Profiler when ran the T- SQL template against some Stored Procedures, in the error column i get 2 - Abort. Can some one help me on this issue.
Is it possible to install SQL server profiler in Express Edition. I know it can be installed in SQL server 2005. Once I tried installing in Express edition and it did not work. What is the main diofferenve between SQL Server 2005 and Express edition? Thanks
We have two servers each running SQL7. I cannot run a trace on one server from the other. Whatever server name I enter in the drop down box, the trace only records activity on the server that profiler is running on. Even if I put a non-existent server name in the box (!), the trace accepts the name but still only runs on the host server.
How on earth can a Profile Trace be run where SSE 2005 is installed??? In the past, with MSDE, we always installed the 'tools' on a local workstation, so that we had EnterPrise Manager and its suite of tools...no problem. Yet, with Management Studio Express (err...Distress?), there's no way to do this! I've scoured the net, and I see threads where people have done it, yet, no one seems to be clear...including Microsoft...on how to obtain this MOST IMPORTANT of all tools for an SQL deployment.
I am attempting to create a new trace but I get the following error message: "failed to start a new trace".
I have been doing some digging and as I understand it, I had to find the directory Profiler uses for temporary files. So, I typed the following in the command window "SET TMP" and I received the following reply:
C:UsersRossAppDataLocalTemp
Now, according to the forum: [URL] ...
I am supposed to check that the system folder pointed to by the TMP environment variable exists and is not crammed with files.
Well, when I went to the directory C:UsersRossAppDataLocalTemp, it is indeed full of both files and directories. The size is 16.3 MB and has 133 files and 63 folders.
When I had a look at the Environment Variables window and chose TMP the value is "%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalTemp" which according to my limited understanding is the equivalent to C:UsersRossAppDataLocalTemp.
So, what I am wondering is am I supposed to totally clear out this directory? I am not too keen on doing this because I don't want to stuff my PC up.
This is for SQL Server 2005 SP4 Build 5266. We have been having performance issues in production. There are tight deadlines to be met and it is important that they are solved promptly.
Yesterday we replicated the situation in the acceptance testing environment. The jobs take 8 hours to run and we started at 2:00 PM.
Just before the jobs ran I set up an SQL Server Profiler trace to catch processes with a duration of longer then 12 seconds. I set it to save the results to a database table.
Last night I checked the table at 5:00 PM and there were entries in the table. However, I could be mistaken.
At 9:00 PM I checked the table and it was empty.
This morning I arrived at work and checked SQL Server Profiler. The trace was running and within SQL Server Profiler, there are 100s of results. I stopped the trace. However, checking the table, it is empty.
I thought I would be able to save the trace results to a file. When I chose "Save As" from the file menu, all the options are greyed out (trace file, trace template, trace table, etc).
The results are there but there is no way of saving them and no way of exporting them. How could this have happened?
Is there a location, where SQL Server Profiler saves the results in a temporary space. I may be able to open them and retrieve them. How can I save the results? Why are all my options greyed out?
Set up a trace with the events RPC:Completed, SQL:BatchCompleted, SQL:BatchStarting, and SQL:StmtCompleted.
When I issue the statement: SELECT * FROM XyzView there is nothing captured in Profiler. If I script out the view and then execute the select statement that defines the view, it does show up in Profiler.
I've tried adding a lot of the other events, i.e. SP:StmtCompleted and the various other StmtStarting events and the trace still does not capture anything.
Am I capturing the wrong events or is this known behavior? My goal is to see what the overhead is for using a view versus persisting the results of the view as a table and referencing that instead. The view in question is against static data, joins 9 tables, and is referenced a lot.
I can use the stats generated when I execute the select that defines the view but I still find this to be curious behavior so I assume I'm doing something wrong.
I often use profiler as one tool to identify bad plans. The reads column gives me a good indication of excessive IO to dig into and correct if necessary. I often use it with Showplan so I can see what a query does, replicate it and fix it.
However I have just lost some faith in it. I am looking at a poorly performing query joining five tables. A parallel plan has been generated and one table is being scanned (in parallel) due to a missing index. This table had in excess of 4 million rows in it. The rest hitd indexes well. However the entire query generates ONLY 12 READS.
Once corrected, a single processor plan is used. This looks really efficient and uses 120 reads. That looks the right figure to me.
Clearly 12 reads is wrong. Does the profiler only display one thread of a parallel plan perhaps? Or something else?
We have Merge Replication publications for SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition subscribers. Some articles have filter statements that send rows to multiple subscribers, based on the value of Host_Name() supplied at run-time.
Our publications work for most subscribers, but we have at least one subscriber who downloads too many rows from one of the filtered tables.
When we run the Select SQL from the article's Filter statement it returns the intended 4 rows for this subscriber. We cut and pasted the filter statement into query analyzer, substituted the subscriber's value for Host_Name(), executed the statement, and got the proper 4 rows for this subscriber in the results.
But when this subscriber syncs her Compact Edition database it downloads 10 rows - the proper 4 rows that the filter statement should pass, plus 6 other rows that she should not download. Our hypothesis is that the Filter statement is not properly applied to the article when this subscriber syncs. Other subscribers get the proper rows when they sync, so the publication's filter statement works in some cases, for some values of Host_Name().
We'd like to see the application of the filter statement at run-time (sync-time), but we have not found the text of the filter statement in SQL Profiler output. Should we expect to see the text of the filter statement in SQL Profiler output? Is there a better way to debug this error?
FYI, here's the text of the article filter statement:
SELECT <published_columns> FROM [dbo].[TBL_USER] WHERE user_sys_id in (
select u.user_sys_id
from tbl_user u
join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid
where t.terr_no_id like (
select
case (select t.data_access_qnty from tbl_user u join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid where u.user_sys_id = Host_Name())
when 2 then (select t.terr_no_id from tbl_user u join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid where u.user_sys_id = Host_Name())
when 3 then (select left(t.terr_no_id,5)+'%' from tbl_user u join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid where u.user_sys_id = Host_Name())
end
)
)
And here's the statement we ran from Query Analyzer:
declare @id varchar(10)
select @id = 'aultnc'
SELECT * FROM [dbo].[TBL_USER] WHERE user_sys_id in (
select u.user_sys_id
from tbl_user u
join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid
where t.terr_no_id like (
select
case (select t.data_access_qnty from tbl_user u join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid where u.user_sys_id = @id)
when 2 then (select t.terr_no_id from tbl_user u join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid where u.user_sys_id = @id)
when 3 then (select left(t.terr_no_id,5)+'%' from tbl_user u join tbl_territory t on u.territory_gid = t.territory_gid where u.user_sys_id = @id)
I downloaded and performed a full install of SQL Server Express 2008 Nov CTP. It was installed on a fresh installation of Windows Vista Enterprise x64.
During setup, I checked the 'Client Tools' box which has the description: "Includes management and development tools: SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Configuration Manager, SQL Server Profiler, and Database Engine Tuning Advisor"
The installation ran fine with no errors. After install I looked for the Management Studio but couldnt find it anywhere. No SQL Server Profiler or Database Tuning Advisor either. The only tool that appears to have installed is the SQL Server Configuration Manager.
If I check my Start Menu, the only 2008 items that exist are Microsoft SQL Server 2008 >
Configuration Tools >
SQL Server Configuration Manager SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting SQL Server Installation Center
I checked the summary log and everythign PASSED: Package results: Passed Execution statistics: Exit code: 0x00000000 Exit message: Passed Package start time: 12/13/2007 14:05:39 Package end time: 12/13/2007 14:09:06 Package install location: c:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server100Setup Bootstrap Package initial action: Install Media source location: Install Media version: 10.0.1075.23 Machine properties: Machine name: xxx Machine processor count: 2 OS version: Windows Vista OS service pack: OS language: English (United States) OS architecture: x64 Process architecture: 32 Bit Properties provided in package.xml file: LegalProductName: SQL Server Database Services 2008 Description: SQL Server Database Services 2008 Details: Install for SQL Server Database Services 2008 ProductName: SQL2008 Version: 10 SPLevel: 0 KBArticle: KB876234 KBArticleHyperlink: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=876234 Command line arguments provided: ACTION: Install INSTANCEIDSUFFIX: Product features discovered: Product: SQL2005 Product: SQL2008 Feature status after execution: Database Engine Services: Passed Replication: Passed Client Tools: Passed Windows Installer logs generated during execution: C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapLog20071213_1405T60-l3ac207_20071213_1405_Snac_Cpu64_1.log C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapLog20071213_1405T60-l3ac207_20071213_1405_Msxml6_Cpu64_1.log C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapLog20071213_1405T60-l3ac207_20071213_1405_Tools_Cpu32_1.log C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapLog20071213_1405T60-l3ac207_20071213_1405_SqlWriter_Cpu64_1.log C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapLog20071213_1405T60-l3ac207_20071213_1405_SqlBrowser_Cpu32_1.log C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapLog20071213_1405T60-l3ac207_20071213_1405_Sql_Cpu32_1.log
Can only member in the System Administrators role use the SQL Profiler’s? Is there any other role or way to allow user to use this tool other then adding them to this role? Thanks you
Does anybody have any idea if there is a bug in SQL 7.0 where running multiple traces causes the SQL 7.0 to crash ?? This is running in a clustered environment.
I've looked high and low for information regarding this problem to no avail. Profiler works fine from the local server where SQL7 is running, (using NT security). But even though my client is multiprotocol, I cannot connect from my desktop using SQL security (ODBC error) or NT authentication. NT security gives me ConnectionOpenRcpBindingSetAuthInfo(). I do have a valid id on the NT machine as well and am not getting any errors in the security events log.
Can/How do you connect remotely to the profiler using TCP/IP or Mulitprotocol client?
Can anyone tell me what is a profiler in SQL server 7.0? What I exactly want to know is, in which practical situation u will find the profiler useful. Explaination with example will be appreciated.
