SQL Server Profiler has always been a great tool for tracing activity “under the hood” on a SQL Server and assessing its performance. One feature that helps us quickly set up a trace on our ...

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

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 ...

Get some real useful information from SQL Server Integration Services' Data Profiling Task feature.

SQL Trace, the server-side component of SQL Server 2000’s tracing system, works with the Profiler client-side viewing utility. (The functionality and naming of SQL Trace and Profiler have ...

Andy Hogg demonstrates how to clean up dirty data with the data profiling tool that comes with Microsoft SQL Server ...

Enter the SQL Profiler. This monitoring tool is designed to trace any activity that occurs on a SQL Server database server.

The much-used Microsoft SQL Profiler is a tool headed toward obsolescence. What options are available once the tool is deprecated? We examine SQL Server Extended Events as a possibility. The ...