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Automating SQL Traces

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May 23, 2013 at 12:00 am

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mister.magoo SSC-Forever Points: 47068 More actions · Answer 1

Thanks for a well presented, well thought out article, which has expanded my knowledge.

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95409 More actions · Answer 2

Nice article.

Since profiler traces are deprecated, did you attempt to do this with an extended event?

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Lee Linares SSCrazy Points: 2723 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks for taking the time to share this.

I am having problems setting up the alert. I get this error:

The @wmi_query could not be executed in the @wmi_namespace provided. Verify that an event class selected in the query exists in the namespace and that the query has has the correct syntax. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error:22022)

I made sure the WMI namespace was \\.\root\cimv2 and used the query you provided.

The SQL Server Agent service account is a domain account. We are running SQL Server 2008 Standard, SP2 (10.0.4000)

Found nothing in the SQL log or Windows events logs.

Any ideas on what I did wrong? Thanks.

Lee

andyabel SSC Enthusiast Points: 135 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks, this is a great article that's opened an area I've never really explored before. However, it's not really working the way I'd expected. I have a lightly used, dedicated server (nothing runs on it except SQL Server). The Windows CPU graph hardly ticks up (see below):-

Yet I'm getting alerts every 20 to 30 minutes. The spike on the left caused one of those alerts.

I don't understand it.

I thought the "WITHIN 120" required the 95% usage to be sustained for 2 minutes, yet the performance graph shows only a brief spike.

MPF_INC SSC Enthusiast Points: 104 More actions · Answer 5

submitted before finished .. . see response in next post below

MPF_INC SSC Enthusiast Points: 104 More actions · Answer 6

Lee,

Sorry I didn't see your question earlier; I didn't realize the article had been published yet.

Concerning the WMI error you reference, three immediate possibilities come to mind:

1.) Is SQL Server Service Broker enabled?

(http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/61823)

2.) Is this a cluster configuration relevant to MS Support Post:

(http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/960573)

3.) Does the domain account have rights to query WMI on this server?

(http://technet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787533(v=ws.10).aspx)

Thanks,

Clark

Lee Linares SSCrazy Points: 2723 More actions · Answer 7

Clark,

Thanks for the response. I checked and broker was enabled, the domain account was able to query WMI and the instance is not a cluster. What I ended up doing was taking the query that I had cut and pasted from your excellent article and comlpetely re-enter it manually. Then it worked fine. Very strange. Thanks again for you article and yor response.

Lee