Developers using Profiler

  • Should developers be allowed to use Profiler in development and test regions?

    All opinions appreciated, thanks!

  • I think they should if they will to trace code. However they should be careful not to make sysadmin type changes if they have rights.

  • rocky (8/14/2008)


    Should developers be allowed to use Profiler in development and test regions?

    All opinions appreciated, thanks!

    In dev and test, I would say yes. It helps a lot in testing and debugging of code. On production, no, I would not give access.

    On SQl 2005, people no longer need sysadmin to run profiler. There's an ALTER TRACE permission that can be given to people that lets them just create, start and stop traces

    Gail Shaw
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  • We permit traces in development, but not in QA. Our developers have no more rights in QA than they do in production. This prevents QA from becoming a second development environment. But, in general, yes.

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

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