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I have a trace setup for SQL Server Profiler to monitor SQL that is executed on a database. I recently discovered that trigger execution is not included in the trace. After looking through available events for a trace, I do not see any that look like they would include trigger execution. Does anyone know how to setup a trace to monitor the execution of triggers?
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In SQL Server Profiler 2008, when starting/configuring the trace, go to the "Events Selection" tab, click on the "Show all events" checkbox, and then in the list under the Stored Procedures section select the SP:StmtStarting and SP:StmtCompleted events to be included in the trace.
To test if a trigger fires you can add a PRINT statement to the trigger (e.g. "PRINT 'trigger fired!' "), then do something that should trigger the trigger. If you get the printed text in your messages-tab in management studio you know it fired.
To view database level triggers, Login to the server using SQL Server management studio and navigate to the database. Expand the database and navigate to Programmability -> Database Triggers. To view triggers at the server level, Login to Server using SSMS and navigate to Server Objects and then Triggers folder.
Stored procedures: - SP:StmtStarting - SP:StmtCompleted
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In SQL Server Profiler 2008, when starting/configuring the trace, go to the "Events Selection" tab, click on the "Show all events" checkbox, and then in the list under the Stored Procedures section select the SP:StmtStarting and SP:StmtCompleted events to be included in the trace.
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