Thanx Erland for your suggestions.


"Erland Sommarskog" <sommar@algonet.se> wrote in message
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> Robert (stop.spam@boeing.com) writes:
> > I have been attempting to develop a useful and functional template
> > for
> > database tracing/profiling that will enable me to collect metrics for
> > performance tuning. The database is used as an OLTP database as well as
> > running reports. Below is a list of my trace properties and data
> > columns. I would be interested to see other examples and strategies for
> > the Profiler.
>
> There too many ways to profile with Profiler to list them all. I do
> have a performance template, and is quite difficult from yours. I have
> all SP events, but SP:ExecContextHit and SP:StmtStarting and
SP:SPStarting.
> The only other event is SQL:BatchCompleted. As for the columns I
> have EventData, TextData, CPU, Read, Write, Duration, Spid, StartTime
> and EndTime. I typically add a filter for a certain spid, since I use
> this template for tracking troublesome function.
>
> But as the trace goes on, I might add Execution Plan, together with
> some filter, to only give the interesting plans. I might add EventSubClass
> to find out abour reasons for recompiles. I might add a Duration
> filter to remove 0-ms events. (In which case also CacheMiss and other
> timeless events might be dropped.)
>
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, sommar@algonet.se
>
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