SansSQL: Client Side Trace.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Client Side and Server Side Tracing in SQL Server

What comes to your mind first when someone says or talks about the performance tuning?
Obviously, it will be Profiler and Tracing.
Profiler is a tool which is used to trace and store the events that are happening on a particular database or on a server overall. The result of this tool can be stored either as a file or in a table.
When you open the profiler and run the trace against a database it is referred to Client side tracing, this is because the profiler being a client tool and even when the profiler is run within the server, it is also referred as Client Side Tracing.

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