MysteryJimbo (10/20/2010)
I believe its a combination of myth and/or poorly configured traces that have spread this across a multitude of articles.
I have personally brought down a busy production server with a lightweight trace via the profiler GUI. It's no myth.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability