• beautiful correction and thank you,

    I updated my snippets with a note so i remember that.

    thanks!

    opc.three (7/31/2012)


    The DEFAULT option works as you described, but you'll need to set @path this way if you want to pickup all default trace files:

    SELECT @path = REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE([path]), CHARINDEX('\', REVERSE([path])), 260)) + N'log.trc'

    FROM sys.traces

    WHERE is_default = 1;

    Lowell


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