Profiler Filter not working

  • I'm using SQL Server 2000 Enterprise

    SQL SP 2

    One of our dev guys has a group of sps that run late at night. Now he asked to just find out when a particular sp starts and finishes

    now when i setup the trace to filter so only the sp we want to monitor is traced. it doesnt work, i still get all the other crap. but if i filter on user name it works .

    Is this a bug with Profiler ?

    how do i get the trace to just log the sp i want ?

    Thanks.

    Steve

  • I have noticed that SQL Profiler filters seem to be case sensitive. Check to see if your filter exactly matches the EXEC being submitted by your dev guy.

  • Also, some Events do not seem to work against the filters so you will get anything that happens.

  • Cheers guys

    I triple checked the case ...

    ....Is this a limit or a bug ?

    is there a workaround ?, the process I want to monitor takes place at 11pm and goes on for a few hours there would be a lot of output generated from a trace that captures everything .

  • I think in what I stated it is a limit of the filter interaction with the event. Capture only what you need in regards to events. For example things like SP:CacheMiss are picked up in all DBs even though I set a DB filter. Just make sure you go after only what you need.

  • I too have noticed issues with the Profiler since SP2. In my case, it is filtering on database name. I have had to resort to filtering on database id instead.

    I did try the database name in the correct case, all lower case, and all upper case...all to the same effect. Switching to database id worked correctly.


    David R Buckingham, MCDBA,MCSA,MCP

  • In 6.5 tracing was easier... well at least you could import the file into Excel but not any more unless anyone knows of a way ??.

    I suppose you could capture to a table and then import into excel.

  • stevekeily,

    You can use fn_trace_getinfo to return just the trace records you want by specifying an appropriate WHERE clause. You could use that in conjunction with bcp to create a CSV data file for import into Excel.


    David R Buckingham, MCDBA,MCSA,MCP

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