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 ...

IDERA today announced the availability of SQL Data Profiler, a free tool with a focus on the needs of data architects.

SQL Server 2008 Integration Services ships with the wonderful new Data Profiling Task. Much as the name implies, it profiles the data in a given table and returns a ton of useful information. The task ...

SQL Trace, the server-side component of SQL Server 2000’s tracing system, works with the Profiler client-side viewing utility. (The functionality and naming of SQL Trace and Profiler have ...

SQL Profiler and SQL Trace: These two features are the graphic and textual interface to trace SQL Server performance data by capturing and saving details about a given set of trig­gering “events.” ...

When SQL Server Management Studio is already open, the easiest way to open SQL Profiler is to click on the Tools dropdown menu. Then select "SQL Server Profiler" from the menu.

Andy Hogg demonstrates how to clean up dirty data with the data profiling tool that comes with Microsoft SQL Server ...

When SQL Server Management Studio is already open, the easiest way to open SQL Profiler is to click on the Tools dropdown menu. Then select "SQL Server Profiler" from the menu.

The SQL Profiler has a neat Deadlock Graph feature which is very useful. Let’s take a look…. When SQL Server detects a deadlock, it has to do something about it.

Microsoft has updated its SQL Server Management Studio to version 17.3, adding two features along with various minor enhancements and bug fixes.