Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 09/20/24 11:38

Jacand4321 (jacand4321@yahoo.com) writes:
> Thanks Tony for the reply. I'm wondering, if it is going to add any
> significant overhead on the database.

As long as you only catch login events, there is not too much overhead.

However, it's better to use a server-side trace and trace to a file, and
this is leaner on resources. Look up the sp_trace procedures in Books
Online.


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

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

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