Tracking the Use of Deprecated SQL Server Features

SQL Server 2008 provides performance counters and trace events that you can use to track which deprecated features are being used in your environment.

Itzik Ben-Gan

December 22, 2008

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To help you track the use of deprecated features, SQL Server 2008 provides performance counters and trace events. The SQLServer:Deprecated Features object provides the Usage counter and an instance for each deprecated feature. Regarding trace events, the Deprecation Final Support event is logged when you use a feature that will be removed from the next version of SQL Server, and the Deprecation Announcement event is logged when you use a feature that will be removed from a future version of SQL Server

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