I've set the Duration of my trace to "Greater than or Equal to: 1000". However when I start my trace the Duration column is now empty. Prior to the setting, there were values showing in this column. Any ideas on how to fix this?
View 1 RepliesIf monitoring for duration with sql profiler, what does the number represent ie 2733906 is it milliseconds, thousandths, looked in BOL no clear definition
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan someone please tell me what unit of measurement the Duration column is in when running SQL Profiler? I assume milleseconds, but am not sure.
I'm trying to filter on this and want to be sure I'm not missing anything.
Thanks!
Sarfaraz writes "I have captured SQL Profiler data. I was reviewing top running CPU intensive SQL statements. The Duration (in seconds) 1.39, 1.09, 0.16 and CPU (in seconds) 0.97, 0.95, 0.16 respectively for some SQL statements. How do I know what is the normal baseline for duration and CPU in order to determine the CPU intensive SQL statements.
Secondly same question for long running procedure duration 0.14, 0.11. What is the normal baseline here. Is this normal or too long.
Thanks,
Sarfaraz"
Hi Experts,
We have a VLDB ( few table with above 200 million records ). This database is used for performance testing by simulating for 150 users and executing all necessary functional flows.
When I examined the profiler results , I could see some very high values as shown below in the duration column for many events.
1521729
3462142
1624325
3211255
1248276
3903998
Does it mean that that SP or the T-Sql statement is taking this much time in milliseconds to execute and give the output ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
DBLearner
Hi
I have a procedure in a history database that does insert into 3 tables inside a transaction. users complaint that the proc sometimes takes too long during heavy usage. I did some traces to see what is taking up the time, I found that the rpc duration was averaging > 500 ms (should only take 50ms). I checked to see if one of that statements were taking too much time, but only see the commit transaction statement taking around 500 ms). I check the avg disk queue to be around 30. ( this is on a single local disk) .
So is this definitely a disk issue, or is there something else I need to check
thanks
P
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I have a dedicated SQL Server 2005 Workgroup server with Rackspace (RAID 1, which obviously needs to get changed). It's been running relatively smoothly and the last time I traced it (a couple of weeks ago), there were no significant issues. I run a reindex and I reboot every single night, and have built many indices on the tables using Analysis Services.
We move a ton of data in a single day, and the users were complaining of lag, which appeared related to this server. After running a trace, I noticed:
- my normal SPs were taking roughly 5-20x the normal duration and many were timing out
- I was frequently running SPs directly on the server that gave me transaction deadlocked on resource errors
- some of the tiny, quick calls made in the trace were showing as impossible, astronomical durations! Like things that should be "3"ms were showing up as "81544123941234123478090"ms
Is it corrupted?
HELP!
Hello everybody,
I have a very stranger problem that I need to understand...
In last days I executed a plan SQL 2005 Profiler to review TSQL Duration. When reviewing the results encounter that a SP displays a value of 4037312 in field DURATION which are not normal.
Could to help me to identify why passes this?
I ran Sql profiler and got the following results for a stored procedure
CPU of 1078;
Reads of 125464
writes of 0
Duration of 1882
how do i interpret the above results.
also what CPU and Duration is considered high and indicating a poor performing query.
I am using SQL Server 2005. Thanks
Profiler was run against a database looking for "long running" queries. I used the Duration column to filter out the queries that I didn't want. When reviewing the output, I noticed that for some queries the StartTime was equal to the EndTime even though the Duration was set higher.
My question is, "What can account for this discrepancy and what inferences should I draw about the difference?"
Does the difference represent a resouce being locked or some other type of blocking (Duration) and once the query was allowed to run, it completed quickly?
TIA
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Hi All,
I am going over the output of a Profiler trace and I've found that the duration for many occurrences of EventClass 15 (Logout) is several seconds, up to a maximum of 20 seconds. That seems excessive just to complete a logout, so my question is, does the duration figure reflect only the time to complete the logout operation or does it include the total time that the connection has been active for?
Thanks in advance
Lempster
Hi all,
Anyone can tell me how I can take out the events which produce SSMS? (open query windows create three rows). I don't see anythinq filter for SSMS in filter events of profiler. I'm doing at trace and this is not confortable.
Thanks.
im trying to understand how the profiler works. so i started 2profilers,one listen to another and I saw the profiler is running:exec sp_trace_create @P1 output, 1, NULL, NULL, NULLwhich means @tracefile = NULLso where from the profiler read the results?!
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View 1 Replies View RelatedGreetings,I have been attempting to develop a useful and functional template fordatabase tracing/profiling that will enable me to collect metrics forperformance tuning. The database is used as an OLTP database as well asrunning reports. Below is a list of my trace properties and data columns.I would be interested to see other examples and strategies for the Profiler.thanxPerformanceExecution planSecurityAudit LoginAudit LogoutSessionsExisting ConnectionStored ProceduresRPC: CompletedTSQLSQL:Batch completedDATA COLUMNSEvent classtextdataapplication nameNTUsernameLoginNamesCPUreadwritedurationclient proc idSPIDStarttime
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf a table has a trigger on it, and I am profiling.. on StmtCompleted... no filters... all teh stored proc code comes up, but, is there any way at all to see the same for trigger statements? I want to trace thru the proc and thru all trigger code also. Any ideas on work-around to trace trigger code, if Profiler can't do it? Thanks, Bruce
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SQL2005 SP2 64bit
Thanks.
Hi,
Could anyne help me on which options in Profiler could be used to trace the bind variables in DML?
Given a table, X (col1 number, col2 varchar(10)), where col1 is primary key.
Example DML statements:
1) insert into X values (@parameter1, @parameter2)
2) update X set col2 = @parameter2 where col1 = @parameter1
3) delete X where col1 = @parameter1
where @parameter1 and @parameter2 are bind variables.
Can Profiler be configured to log the actual values of @parameter1 and @parameter2 in the example statements in trace log?
Thanks a lot.
Hi
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.
Any explanations please.
Keith
Can anyone provide with an example of how to script a profiler trace to have the data wind up in a SQL Table. The scripting mechnism that comes with SQL Server will not allow you to put the results in a table.
Thanks
Bill
Is there a way to setup a trace to show only direct TSQL statements triggered on my server? note I don't want to capture Procedure calls or the statements called within the procs.
Actually many people are firing direct SQL statements on server. And some are coming from entity framework as well. I just want to capture those.
I have discovered trace output in MSSQLDATAMSSQL.1MSSQLLOG that I have not kicked off. It is at various times and limited to 20MB. So that tells me a server event is kicking off a pre-defined trace. The trace contains mostly hash warnings and sort warnings.
I have looked through my Agent Jobs, Agent Alerts, and perfmon and don't find anything that is set up to kick off a trace under a specified condition.
I have checked the job activity, SQL error logs, SQL server logs, and the server's event viewer for any odd events or event times that correlate with the times of the traces.
I have checked each database's sys.sql_modules for a definition containing '%sp_trace%'.
Where else can I check to find what would be triggering these traces?
Our app logins don't have permissions high enough to run traces, I verified:
You do not have permission to run 'SP_TRACE_CREATE'
I am the DBA, not a .NET programmer -- so I am lacking experience if there's anything on the .NET side.
This is SQL 2005 64-bit running active/passive on a Win2003 clustered pair.
With SQL Server 2005 there is an option to grant a person access to Profiler for tracing SQL. This is done with the "GRANT ALTER TRACE" statement. The statement has to be executed at server level i.e. the master database.
The user in question only has access to certain databases on that server. The security problem that arises is that with the Profiler rights active, he can see the sql commands that are executed on the databases he has no rights for. Those SQL commands are executed by others users.
How do I configure security rules so that the person in question can use Profiler, but can only see the SQL statements that are executed on the databases he has the rights for? TIA!
Someone Please Help!
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.
Please Help! Someone...Anyone!...Thank You!...Michael
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 am trying to load all the MDX queries that run on a Analysis Server instance into a database for further analysis. A SQL Profiler is setup which captures the MDX queries, and when I am loading the Profiler info to database, some of the queries are not coming up in full length.The TextData field doestn't show full MDX query. When loading to the database, the field is next data type. Is there any workaround to get the complete MDX query?
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Hi there - can anyone advise on the following issue. We have recently performed some server side tracing on a particular SQL instance over 24hr period. We are now attempting to load these into a database for analysis. Here lies the problem.
When we are loading the profiler trace files (one at a time) into the database the transaction log is growing at an excessive rate. Even though the database is in SIMPLE mode.
We are loading the traces using the command:
INSERT INTO sqlTableToLoad
SELECT * FROM ::fn_trace_gettable('MytraceFileName', DEFAULT)
Can anyone advise how we could possibly get round this issue as we're running out of space due to the transaction log.
Thanks
I am working with 3 sql 7.0 servers (Servers A, B, C) and am trying to create a trace via profiler to run against server B.
Every trace that I create keeps pointing to server A even though I have server B defined in the properties of the trace - (when I edit the trace properties it REALLY does show server B). I have server B defined in the screen where you 'Select the SQL Server to run the trace on'. I even used the wizard to run one of the canned traces and it still points to server A. Every trace I set up runs against server A. Can anyone think of what the heck I'm doin' wrong? Is is a configuration setting somewhere?
In order to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV with the SQL Server 2005, I need to set Trace Flag 4616, and I know it's a setting somwhere, where I can add this flag no. -but I can't remember where? Please help?
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I have to trap login information in a table and have a scheduled job that runs once a month and look for specific data in the table and send out e-mails based on certain values.
I have written the procedure which does this I just need to know how to set up the trace so it runs in the background continuously.
Can anyone help?
Thanks............
I have the following SQL query
SELECT
[Req_ID]
,[Service_Name]
,[Req_Started_Date]
,[Task_Name]
,[Task_Status]
,[Performer_Full_Name]
[code]....
Which works fine, but what I need to calculate the total duration of a request based on the duration of the tasks completed in the request based on Req_ID. I would like to use the CASE statement I have to determine the SLA_Mins for each task and add them together to get total request SLA_Mins.
Below is the create table schema and data
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[MidrangeOtherSourceControl] Script Date: 06/03/2015 18:13:15 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[MidrangeOtherSourceControl](
[Req_ID] [float] NULL,
[Service_Name] [nvarchar](255) NULL,
[code]....