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Video: Pt. 4 - Managing, Viewing and Interpreting SQL Server Traces

  • ·Skill level: 400 (Intermediate - Advanced)
  • ·Run Time: 16:14
  • ·Instructor: Scott Whigham

Description:

This is a huge video - one that you should definitely watch if you'll be working with Profiler often. In this video our resident guru, Scott Whigham, walks you through all the various techniques for saving and exporting trace data: saving trace data as SQL files (for performance tuning and index tuning), exporting as a template, saving your traces as a SQL Server table and more. One of the best things in this video is seeing how, once you export/save your trace to a SQL table, you can write queries against the data. You could write queries that would tell you how many times a particular table appears in the trace, average/min/max execution times, and more.

Highlights from this video:
  • Importing and Exporting trace data and trace files
  • Working with TextData column in your trace table
  • Interpreting Reads/CPU/Duration and other information
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

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