im trying to understand how the profiler works. so i started 2
profilers,one listen to another and I saw the profiler is running:
exec sp_trace_create @P1 output, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL
which means @tracefile = NULL
so where from the profiler read the results?!
HiI want read a trace file generated by SQL Server 2005 througr SQLServer 2000.But fn_trace_gettable function in SQL 2000 does not recognize the fileas of proper format.If there is some other tool or utility available through which i canread the file generated by SQL Server 2005.Or if I can get the file format of the file then I will write my owntool.ThanksPushkar
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis 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?
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.
Greetings,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
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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
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?
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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.
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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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
When we enable tracing for a web application where exactly the file or content of the file "Trace.axd" saves?
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I have been running a trace and see a lot of exception errors with this error.
error: 2557, severity: 16, State: 7
any ideas on what may be casing this?
Hi, i'm doing a script to do a trace, how can i include in my script the option of "Enable File Rollover". I only see it by properties but i would like to include it in a script.
Thanks for your help
Hi,
I am using SQL server2000,often we can see data has been replicated automatically.So,I enabled audit to trace the database.
I do know the Application name field(Column name) in audit file.It says
'DTS Export/Import wizard' the host name is different server.
Plz help me ASAP.
Does anyone know exactly how to create a trace that runs continuously on a server and writes the data to a table? Now I know how to create a trace file with the profiler, but I want something set up so that I don't have to have the profiler running on the server all the time. As well as soemthing that will restart itself if the server is rebooted. I have been looking at these x(xp_trace.*) procedures. Is this the way to do it?
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............
Hi,
I've created a few audit trace sessions and each of them is producing files.
The procedure I used is listed below:
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sysobjects WHERE [name] = 'sp_Turn_Audit_On' AND type = 'P')
DROP PROC sp_Turn_Audit_On
GO
CREATE proc sp_Turn_Audit_On
as
/************************************************** **/
/* Created by: SQL Profiler */
/* Date: 11/15/2006 05:16:40 PM */
/************************************************** **/
-- Create a Queue
declare @rc int
declare @TraceID int
declare @maxfilesize bigint
set @maxfilesize = 1024
exec @rc = sp_trace_create @TraceID output, 2, N'E:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLTraceAudit_Info.trc', @maxfilesize, NULL
if (@rc != 0) goto error
-- Client side File and Table cannot be scripted
-- Set the events
declare @on bit
set @on = 1
begin
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 20, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 37, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 46, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 47, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 104, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 107, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 109, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 110, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 115, 18, @on
-- Set the Filters
declare @intfilter int
declare @bigintfilter bigint
exec sp_trace_setfilter @TraceID, 10, 0, 7, N'SQL Profiler'
-- Set the trace status to start
exec sp_trace_setstatus @TraceID, 1
-- display trace id for future references
select TraceID=@TraceID
goto noCursor
error:
select ErrorCode=@rc
noCursor:
return
end
Unfortunately, I didn't mention the @stoptime for each of the trace sessions and now I'm unable to delete the trace files. Is there any select statement that will be useful in finding the @traceid for these auditting sessions? Also, how am I able to stop the sessions without stopping the related services?
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Alla
I am in the middle of capturing a workload to try and tune a SQL instance and was wondering what kinds of sizes people capture in terms of traces. I am only 1 day into a capture and I believe a typical workload would be a week long capture and I am already at 10GB of files. I am only capturing rpc_completed and sql_batch_completed.
What sizes of workloads do other people capture and then where do you analyse them, do you have particular dedicated server for this kind of thing as at present I am looking to use my local PC. Also what rollover file sizes do people tend to use, I am currently using 1GB.
Where would i find my particular database Error log file, Event log file and Trace file etc?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a trace file with the file as part of it's name.For example, I'd like to create a file called FailedLogins-20050428. Sofar I haven't been able to figure out how to get the name of the fileand the date together (I'm sill very new to SQL Server and tracing).What I've done is:declare @rc intdeclare @traceid intdeclare @maxfilesize bigintset @maxfilesize = 50exec @rc=sp_trace_create @traceid=@traceid output, @options=0,@tracefile=N'C: racefailedlogins', @maxfilesize=@maxfilesize,@stoptime=NULLif @rc > 0 print 'sp_trace_code failed with error code ' +rtrim(cast(@rc as char))else print 'traceid for the trace is ' + rtrim(cast(@traceid as char))I can create a trace file on C drive without difficulty. I've triedcreating a file like this:exec @rc=sp_trace_create @traceid=@traceid output, @options=0,@tracefile=N'C: racefailedlogins + convert (varchar,getdate(),112',@maxfilesize=@maxfilesize, @stoptime=NULLBut what I end up created is a file on C calledfailedlogins + convert(varchar,getdate(),112).trcI have no doubt what I want to do can be done. I just done know how todo it.If anyone could tell me where I'm going wrong, I'd really appreciateit.Thanks in advance.
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