Important Trace Flags for DBA A trace flag is used to set specific server characteristics or to switch off a p articular

behavior of the SQL Server. You can enable the trace flag from Startup Parameters, Session and Global Sessio n level. 1 2 DBCC TraceON(Flag Number) at session level DBCC TraceON(Flag Number, -1) -- Global Trace Flag 610 : Minimally logged DML operations into Indexed tables, transactio n log and allow bulk loading Trace Flag 4199 : enable query optimizer fixes Trace Flag 1222 : writes the deadlock information in XML format into error log Trace flag 835 : Enable the Lock Pages in memory for standard edition Trace flag 1118 : Directs SQL Server to allocate full extents to each tempDB obj ects Trace flag 1204 : Write information about the deadlock in text format Trace flag 1211 : Disable the lock escalation based on the memory pressure Trace flag 3226 : Prevents successful backup operation being logged Trace flag 3014 : Returns more information to error log about backup operation Trace flag 3502 : Write information about the checkpoint in the error log Trace flag 3505 : Disables automatic checkpoint Trace flag 3004 : Returns more information about the instant file initialization Trace flag 1806 : Disables the instant file initialization