Video:
Pt. 3 - Performance Tuning Profiler and Traces By Adding Filters and Working with Large Traces
Skill
level:
400 (Intermediate - Advanced)- Run Time:
8:20
- Instructor:
Scott Whigham
Description:
The filters you choose (or don't choose) can definitely give you improved throughput for your traces. This video walks you through how to set up the filters and designing traces for performance. At the end of this video, a great demo of how organize your traces for easier readability and troubleshooting.
Highlights from this video:
- What filters should I use when I want to filter for long running/slow queries?
- What are Reads and Duration and why are they important?
- How can I only trace my application (not SQL Server Agent, for example)
- Tracing for performance tuning
- What Event Classes use what Filters
- Suggestions for using filters to create more manageable traces
and much more
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Scott Whigham
Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive
video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced
consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working
with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio,
and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries,
and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most
re...
(Scott's full bio can be found here)
NOTE: This video is part of our
SQL Server 2005 Database Administration course.
This video is from Chapter
11:
Monitoring and Performance Tuning SQL Server
