Posted by Dan Guzman on 06/26/07 11:55

Profiler essentially creates a SQL Trace and streams the trace data back to
the Profiler client GUI. It is recommended that you use SQL Trace scripts
instead of Profiler on an active system due to the overhead. You can use
Profiler to generate SQL Trace scripts.

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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

<ofirmgr@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> im trying to understand how the profiler works. so i started 2
> profilers,one listen to another and I saw the profiler is running:
> exec sp_trace_create @P1 output, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL
> which means @tracefile = NULL
> so where from the profiler read the results?!
>

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