Tara Kizer wrote this chapter, and it is relevant for us developers.Tara briefly explains how to use the GUI, the Profiler, and states that it can heavily impact the performance on the server. Then she explains how to set up a server-side trace which should incur less overhead, and I noticed that the working example which she provided is quite ...

''Tribal SQL'' is an interesting book, so I will be reviewing some, although not all, of its chapters.Quoting from the introduction, ''This is a book for DBAs, for things you think they really ought to know''.As an agile developer, I clearly do not belong in this book's target audience. Also I am not qualified to review some of the chapters, as I ...