Also, the Profiler captures only successful commands and logins; if a user issues a SQL command that is denied, for example, the SQL Server 7.0 Profiler will not report it.

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 ...

One feature that helps us quickly set up a trace on our current connection is new in SSMS 2008, namely “Trace Query in SQL Server Profiler”. Let’s take a look.

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.

The flaw shows up in the use of SQL Profiler in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to audit connections to SQL Server 2000 by using the Audit Login event class. When log-in names contain leading zero ...

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 ...

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

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.