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Profiler traces

  • July 11, 2016 at 4:28 am

    #327609

    Hi all,

    I have some servers with multiple instances, will I have to create a trace for each instance, or is there a way to run one trace for all instances?

    Thanks

  • July 11, 2016 at 4:37 am

    #1889375

    Traces are per-instance.

    Gail Shaw
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  • July 11, 2016 at 5:50 am

    #1889384

    As Gail says, they are per instance. You can create a script that will allow you to create the same trace on all your instances if you so desire. In fact, that's a very good approach. Just make sure you take into account different storage of the output of the trace for each server by naming the files differently if they're all going to the same location, or by having them go to different locations.

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