SQL Server Profiler has always been a great tool for tracing activity “under the hood” on a SQL Server and assessing its performance. One feature that helps us quickly set up a trace on our ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server.

The SQL Profiler has a neat Deadlock Graph feature which is very useful. Let’s take a look…. When SQL Server detects a deadlock, it has to do something about it.