How To Install Sql Server Profiler

You must install the plugin on each server on which you wish to use SQL Profiler. For example, if you have a host running PostgreSQL 9.6 and PostgreSQL 10, you must install two versions of the plugin, one for each server.

Follow the installation steps listed below to install the plugin for PostgreSQL before continuing to the Configuration section. If you are using Advanced Server, you can skip installation and move ahead to the Configuration section.

You can use the graphical installer to install any version of SQL Profiler on the Windows platform. On Linux, use an RPM package to install the SQL Profiler. For detailed information about configuring the EDB repository for your host platform, see the PEM Linux Installation Guide.

Installing SQL Profiler on Windows

To invoke the SQL Profiler graphical installer, assume Administrator privileges, navigate into the directory that contains the installer, and double-click the installer icon. The SQL Profiler installer welcomes you to the Setup Wizard.

The SQL Profiler Installer Welcome dialog

Click Next to continue to the License Agreement.

The SQL Profiler License Agreement

Carefully review the license agreement before highlighting the appropriate radio button and accepting the agreement; click Next to continue to the Installation Directory dialog.

The PostgreSQL Installation Directory

Specify an alternate location for the installation directory, or accept the default location and click Next to continue.

Ready to Install

The wizard is now ready to install the SQL Profiler plugin. Click Next to continue.

Installing the SQL Profiler plugin

The SQL Profiler plugin installer displays progress bars as it copies files to your system.

The SQL Profiler installation is complete

When the installation is complete, the SQL Profiler plugin is ready to be configured.

Using an RPM Package to Install SQL Profiler

Note

You may be required to add the sslutils package to your PostgreSQL database servers before installing SQL Profiler.

If you have already configured the EDB repository on your system, you can use yum or dnf to install SQL Profiler:

yum install postgresql<X>-sqlprofiler  or  dnf install postgresql<X>-sqlprofiler

Where, <X> is the version of your Postgres installation.

For detailed information about configuring the EDB repository, please see the PEM Linux Installation Guide.

Installing SQL Profiler on Debian/Ubuntu

Note

You may be required to add the sslutils package to your PostgreSQL database servers before installing SQL Profiler.

You can use an apt command to install SQL Profiler using DEB on Debian 9.x or Ubuntu 18; assume root privileges and enter:

apt install postgresql-<X>-sqlprofiler

Where, <X> is the version of your Postgres installation.

When the installation is complete, the SQL Profiler plugin is ready to be configured.

Configuring SQL Profiler

The SQL Profiler plugin is not automatically enabled when the installation process completes. This allows you to restart the server at a convenient time, and prevents the plugin from being loaded unnecessarily on systems where it is not required on a continual basis.

Use the following steps to enable the plugin:

Edit the postgresql.conf file on the server you wish to profile, modifying the shared_preload_libraries parameter as shown below:
```
shared_preload_libraries = '$libdir/sql-profiler'
```
Restart the Postgres server.
Using the Query Tool or the psql command line interface, run the sql-profiler.sql script in the database specified as the Maintenance Database on the server you wish to profile. If you are using:
- PostgreSQL, the default maintenance database is postgres.
- Advanced Server, the default maintenance database is edb.
To use the PEM Query Tool to run the script, highlight the name of the maintenance database in the Browser tree control, and navigate through the Tools menu to select Query tool. When the Query Tool opens, use the Open option on the Files menu to open a web browser and navigate to the sql-profiler.sql script. By default, the sql-profiler.sql script is located in the contrib folder, under your Postgres installation.

When the script opens in the SQL Editor panel of the Query Tool, highlight the content of the script in the SQL Editor and select the Execute option from the Query menu (or click the Execute icon) to invoke the script and configure SQL Profiler.

You can also use the psql command line to invoke the configuration script. The following command uses psql to invoke the sql-profiler.sql script on an Advanced Server database on a Linux system:
```
$ /usr/edb/as<x>/bin/psql -U postgres postgres < /usr/edb/as<x>/share/contrib/sql-profiler.sql
```
where < x> is the version of the Advanced Server.

After configuring SQL Profiler, it is ready to use with all databases that reside on the server.

To access SQL Profiler functionality, highlight the name of the monitored Server/ database in the PEM Browser tree control; under Tools menu navigate through Server option to the SQL Profiler pull-aside menu. Menu options allow you to manage your SQL traces:
- Select Create trace… to define a new trace.
- Select Open trace… to open an existing trace.
- Select Delete trace(s)… to delete one or more traces.
- Select View scheduled trace(s)… to review a list of scheduled traces.