Data profiling Data profiling is the process of analyzing the source data to better understand, what is the condition of data. This task basically used in beginning of the development life cycle in OLAP or ETL application. So its related to OLAP and activities related to this process is data cleanings analysis, pattern analysis, number or nulls, aggregations, group , distinct values etc. Data Profiler is a tool available to do this. Query profiling SQL Server or any database technology provides utility or tool that help to discovery query and slow running queries. Query profiling is related to OLTP applications. This helps to performance tunning and optimizations. We do analysis on index scan/seek, query IO/CPU/Memory usage , physical and logical reads etc. Profiler is the tool in SSMS to do this.
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