Re: SQL Profiler producing phantom traffic

From: Narayana Vyas Kondreddi (answer_me_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/31/04


Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:58:33 +0100

Can you show us what sort of traffic you are referring to?

Could it be that there was a server side trace running? You can verify this
using fn_trace_getinfo function.

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"Wex" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3a4d01c48f8d$25b38820$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a user who is running SQL Profiler on their client
> machine.  During the devlopment phase of this project they
> used profiler to help with their coding.  Now that we have
> taken the project to staging and production they no longer
> have the necessary rights to run profiler.
>
> Here is the problem:  Our firewall is blocking traffic
> between the users machine and the SQL server.  Regardless
> of which machine the user connects to with profiler (he is
> using it for other projects), there is traffic that is
> produced about every second as the SQL server tries to
> respond to profiler.  The user is NOT trying to run any
> traces against the SQl Server.  Even if he was, our
> firewall blocks the traffic.
>
> Thanks
>
> Does any one have any ideas how to stop this unnecessary
> traffic?


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