Blocked, Blocking and duration monitoring

  • I need to monitor a lock issue and is required to monitor blocked sentence, blocking sentence and duration as well, to realize this I try to use profiler but our hosting provider deny all remote access to the database, when I start profiler on the database server immediately general performance falls to an unacceptable level, any advice would be highly appreciated.

    Thanks & Regards,

    Gustavo

  • You can try to narrow down your profiler for specific database or specific table or specific stored procedure. Also I have read some time back that using t-sql for tracing will not create too much load on the server. I am not sure of this though.

    http://vyaskn.tripod.com/server_side_tracing_in_sql_server.htm

  • You can try server side tracing. Create traces that write to a file and be as specific as you can (mentioned in previous post).

    one article i can point out is http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/68419/

    "Keep Trying"

  • Don't use profiler on a busy production server. It has an overhead. A server-side trace is much lighter impact.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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