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 ...

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

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 ...

Brian Egler MCSE/MCT is a Microsoft SQL Server Course Director for Global Knowledge. He has more than 15 years' experience with SQL Server. Every year he runs the Boston Marathon for cancer research.

These were first introduced in SQL Server 2008, but didn't really catch on until SQL Server 2008 R2. The second is SQL Server profiler, which is available to every version of SQL Server starting ...

Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today announced the availability of SQL XEvent Profiler 1.0, a free tool that allows DBAs to create, run and view SQL ...