How to Monitor SQL Server Network Traffic

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babak picture babak · Apr 30, 2011 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

I want to monitor the network traffic used by each transaction with Microsoft SQL Server, for example when a query ran on the SQL what was the size of the request & the response as it passed through the network interface.

Are there any tools which do this, especially free tools?

Answer

James L picture James L · Apr 30, 2011

Wireshark, filter capture on port 1433:

host [your sql server's ip] and port 1433

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