I have been using SQL Sentry 1 for the last couple of years or so to monitor my production SQL server. But recently I have been looking at other tools and have found that When Sentry 1 is running I end up with about 2 million more waits a day, When I dig further I find that this query
create procedure sys.sp_trace_getdata
(@traceid int,
@records int = 0
)
as
select * from OpenRowset(TABLE TRCDATA, @traceid, @records)
accounts for 15 time more waits that the next wait and some time 20x more. It averages jut under 6 million waits a day. If I turn off the monitor tool my waits drop dramatically. Now these are also all Tracewrite Waits so it shouldn't be an issue but at what level is it considered excessive?
The users do not seems to notice a difference but I was wondering is it a good idea to continually run this monitor or should it only be...