Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/06/07 11:57

Bartolo (andrew.osa@gmail.com) writes:
> I'm trying to execute server-side trace with SqlServer 2000 on
> cluster. After scripting trace by Profiler I executed this script in
> Queryanalyzer and got error code 12. According to BOL this code says
> that file is not created but I don't know why, is there are any
> obstacles which preventing to add this trace??
> Does anybody had that problem?

Does the directory exist? Does the file already exist? In the latter case,
you need to deletet it first.

> exec @rc = sp_trace_create @TraceID output, 0, N'C:\Profiler_result
> \result.trc', @maxfilesize, NULL

Also try removing ".trc". Trace adds that for you.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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