View what queries have been run in SQL 2005

Question

I've been asked to have a look at building an MI mart from a transactional DB.  The source Db is in SQL 2005. The transaction logs are showing that there are approx. 35-40 timeouts per day while the quantity of transactions written is  <1000
per day. 
Currently reporting is coming off of the source using nested views which I suspect are causing these timeouts.  Without using any third party tools, I'm thinking the best way to see sys.dm_exec_sql_text but I do not have access to run this.  Any ideas
for work around ?

Answer 1

Hi nick,
According to your description, you can use SQL Server Profiler and use a filter on it to get the most expensive queries. A standard trace with the Lock Timeout event and Deadlock Graph events should can help you
monitor when time-out conditions occur ,when deadlocks occur , which objects are involved and so on. Most timeouts may are caused by not having a good set of indexes for your workload.
For more information about SQL Server Profiler,
Lock: Timeout Event Class. You can review the following articles.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190378.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189107.aspx
In addition, if you want to run the function of “sys.dm_exec_sql_text”, you need to require VIEW SERVER STATE permission on the server. Your DBA can grant the permission via the following T-SQL statement:
USE master;
GRANT VIEW SERVER STATE TO <your account name>;
GO
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Sofiya Li
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