Wednesday, November 01, 2006

New Microsoft SQL Server Video Tutorial: Pt. 3 - What Do You Do With Your Trace Data? How to Write Queries Against Your Trace

Pt. 3 - What Do You Do With Your Trace Data? How to Write Queries Against Your Trace - view details
Do you want to know how many times a query has run in your trace? What about finding aggregates like what the minimum duration, maximum duration, and average durations/page reads/CPU? This is a great video that teaches you how to manipulate the trace data into a table for querying. Even then, you still have some work to do...

Highlights from this video:
  • How to save a trace to a table
  • Querying trace tables
  • Writing reporting-style queries against traces
  • Working with ntext data types and GROUP BY/WHERE clauses
  • Modifying your trace table to make it usable in aggregates
  • Saving the queries traced to a SQL file
and much more

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