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SQL Profile has notoriously high performance overhead.<br />
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Is this also true when WMI is used for SQL monitoring?
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SQL Profile has notoriously high performance overhead.

Is this also true when WMI is used for SQL monitoring?

WMI vs SQL Profiler

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Windows Server 2008

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