ExpressProfiler (aka SqlExpress Profiler) is a simple and fast replacement for SQL Server Profiler with basic GUI and integration with Red Gate Ecosystem project.

Can be used with both Express and non-Express editions of SQL Server 2005/2008/2008r2/2012/2014 (including LocalDB) Distribution package contains both standalone version of ExpressProfiler (can be used without installation) and installation package.

Features

• Tracing of basic set of events (Batch/RPC/SP:Stmt Starting/Completed, Audit login/logout, User error messages, Blocked Process report) and columns (Event Class, Text Data,Login, CPU, Reads, Writes, Duration, SPID, Start/End time, Database/Object/Application name) - both selectable
• Filters on most data columns
• Copy all/selected event rows to clipboard in form of XML
• Find in "Text data" column
• Export data in Excel's clipboard format

Did you know? You can filter your trace [image:filter1.png] [image:filter2.png]

Command-line parameters. Can be used to set default GUI values

• -server, -s
• -user, -u
• -password, -p
• -maxevents, -m : set maximum events in event list (1000 by default)
• -duration, -d : sets filter on duration column
• -start : automatically start profiling

Plans/Roadmap

• online query normalization
• online extraction of actual query from prepared statements/sp_executesql
• online execution statistics grouped by normalized statements
• save/load captured trace