{"id":122,"date":"2015-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/trace-flags-every-dba-should-know-about"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:51:59","slug":"trace-flags-every-dba-should-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/31\/trace-flags-every-dba-should-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Trace flags every DBA should know about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have compiled a list of trace flags which I recommend enabling by default on all of you SQL Server instances and ones which are simply, useful. Check out the page and bookmark it for reference as I will be updating it periodically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/deriks-favorite-trace-flags\/\">Derik\u2019s Favorite Trace Flags<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will also be available on the home page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/homepage-loc-tfs.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/homepage-loc-tfs.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammer-derik-172x140.png\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Written by Derik Hammer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">SQL Hammer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Derik is a data professional focusing on Microsoft SQL Server. His passion focuses around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/category\/high-availability\/\">high-availability<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/category\/general\/disaster-recovery\/\">disaster recovery<\/a>, continuous integration, and automated maintenance. his experience has spanned long-term database administration, consulting, and\u00a0entrepreneurial ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Derik gives the SQL community credit for plugging the gaps in his knowledge when he was a junior DBA and, now that his skills have matured, started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">SQLHammer.com<\/a> as one small way to give back and continue the cycle of shared learning.<\/p>\n<p>Derik is the owner and lead author of SQL Hammer, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">Microsoft SQL Server resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com<\/a>. Follow Derik on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SQLHammer\">Twitter<\/a> for <strong>SQL tips and chat<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have compiled a list of trace flags which I recommend enabling by default on all of you SQL Server instances and ones which are simply, useful. Check out the page and bookmark it for reference as I will be updating it periodically. Derik\u2019s Favorite Trace Flags It will also be available on the home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}