A Few Cool Things You Can Identify Using the Default Trace

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Published on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:00:00 UT Indexed on 2012/04/05 11:38 UTC
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If you are running an instance of SQL Server 2005 and above then most likely that instance is running the default trace. This default trace is a canned Profiler server side trace that automatically starts up when SQL Server starts. In this article Greg Larsen explains more about the default trace and shows you how to glean some event information from the trace files created by this background trace process.

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