Thomas,

> >>>- Monitoring and Profiling capabilities (to see what's going
> >>>on in the database; running statements, transactions, ...)
> >
> >
> > Nickolay's Trace API
>
> I haven't followed the trace API discussions. Do you know whether
> the monitoring stuff will be available through regular DML statements
> or do we need (third-party ) tools which use the trace API?

FB v2.0 will ship with the necessary components/tools to produce a trace
log/details file in a text or binary format.

The analysis tools to parse the logs and provide query functionality
will not be part of the release. (It is expected that the FB tools
vendors will use this new data source as the base for writing new
tools).

Unlike the IB implementation, the trace API provides much finer grain
analysis data. As such, analysis via DML is not really suitable.


Sean