SQL 2005 - Server Trace

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SQL 2005 - Server Trace

balasach82

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July 12, 2010 at 6:31 am

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trying Server side trace with standard template (with additional columns included), but the trace stops after 5MB. How to increase this default size to say 20MB and also enable rollover to next file in case, the max limit is reached?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

In the script that creates the trace, you can set the file size. If I recall, it's defined in a variable right at the beginning of the script.

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balasach82 SSCrazy Eights Points: 9653 More actions · Answer 2

yes saw where to give that file size and rollover. thanks. But when observing the trace using the ::fn.... I see that a single SPID gets repeated more than 200 times with a millisecond difference in time. We are using an VB based front end in which there may be around 200 users using that. In Activity Monitor, I see only one task/SPID against that username whereas the trace contains more than 200 records with same SPDI? I dont understand it. Can u demystify this?

steve smith-401573 SSChampion Points: 10889 More actions · Answer 3

Does your VB process use a single login to the database or pass the user's login credentials through to the database? You may need to capture this information inside the VB as part of the transactional processes, or require adding auditing to the VB application.

If the process is web-based, is there a web.config file that authenticates to the database? If so, then VB owns the problem, not the database.

MenTaT :-) SSC Eights! Points: 811 More actions · Answer 4

Try this:::

declare @maxfilesize bigint

exec @rc = sp_trace_create @TraceID output, 0, N'c:\InsertFileNameHere', @maxfilesize, NULL

-- Please replace the text InsertFileNameHere, with an appropriate

-- filename prefixed by a path, e.g., c:\MyFolder\MyTrace. The .trc extension

-- will be appended to the filename automatically. If you are writing from

-- remote server to local drive, please use UNC path and make sure server has

-- write access to your network share

--Ron

MenTaT :-) SSC Eights! Points: 811 More actions · Answer 5

Oooppss.

Forgot one piece... AM I RED

set @maxfilesize = 20

--Ron