What version/editions of SQL Server is SQL Profiler available on? You can also capture all DDL events which would give you a log of all the changes that are made to your environment. You have the ability to define login/logout events so you can see who is accessing your instance and what systems they are accessing it from. Lastly SQL Profiler can be used to perform auditing on your SQL Server instance. You can also perform proactive maintenance on your SQL Server instance by using SQL Profiler to identify any poor performing queries so they can be analyzed and tuned or you could use it to capture a large time frame of activity so it could be used for replay on a test system. Whether someone has called suspecting there is an issue with your SQL Server instance or you just want to check the overall health/performance of you database, SQL Profiler gives you the ability to monitor anything from regular user activity/transactions to locks/deadlocks and system errors. SQL Profiler has many use cases, but it's main purpose is to monitor the activity in your SQL Server instance. Without this tool you would have to go through the tedious process of manually setting up each event and filter with individual stored procedure calls for every event you want configured in your trace.
SQL Profiler provides you with an easy to use interface that allows you to select the events you want to monitor and where you want the output to be saved without having to know all the system stored procedures that are a part of SQL Trace. It gives you the ability to monitor everything that is going on inside your SQL Server instance. SQL Profiler is a tool that provides a user interface to the SQL Trace utility which gathers events as they occur in your SQL Server instance. Interface that can be accessed from SQL Server Management Studio In this tutorial we will explore how these tasks can be accomplished using the SQL Profiler Whether it's to troubleshoot a possible application or database issue or simply to monitor the overall health of their system. Every DBA needs tools to be able to analyze the activity in their SQL Server database.
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