SQL Server 2005/2008 Express free Profiler Tool

Microsoft SQL Server family includes free Express edition, that is fully functional, however has some limitations which prevent from using it in development process. SQL Server Profiler is not available in SQL Server Express edition.

There are a few free open source software that acts as Sql server profil. One of them is AnjLab.SqlProfiler available to download at http://sqlprofiler.googlepages.com/.

AnjLab.SqlProfiler

This free performance tool for SQL Server Express – http://sqlprofiler.googlepages.com/.
It is an open source project by AnjLab.
It provides the most of functionality standard profiler does, such as choosing events to profile, setting filters, etc. Also it has a GUI.

By now there are no analogue free tools as AnjLab says.

SQL Server 2008 Profiler

SQL Server Profiler is only available with following Editions of SQL Server 2008.
1. Enterprise Edition.
2. Standard Edition
3. Work Group Edition
4. Developer Edition
5. Web Edition

SQL Server Profiler is installed when you install SQL Server Client tools.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx

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