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Using SQL Profiler To Identify Repeated SQL Calls

This week I've been looking into some optimisations for a long-running process that chats to the database. Within the operation, the data isn't expected to change, so it would be reasonable that, where we make repeated calls, we cache the values and re-use them for the duration of the operation. I've been using SQL Profiler to identify them and wanted to blog the method for reference. First, start up SQL Profiler and create a new trace. Connect to the database and define the Events Selection. I kept most things related to data reads and writes: I then ran the application, set a break-point in the code at the point where afterward I was interested in the results, and attached the debugger. On hitting the breakpoint, I started the trace and continued the code execution. When the operation was complete I could stop the trace. To analyse the data, I saved it to a new table in a database I created to store the results in, via File > Save As... > Trace Table