How can I decode SQL Server traffic with wireshark?

Question

I can capture the packets using wireshark, but I can\'t decode the stream into anything intelligible. This bug suggests that maybe this isn\'t possible in SQL Server 2005 o

Answer 1

Not wireshark, but for me the Microsoft Message Analyzer worked great for that.

To get all the sent commands

1. Start a new session
2. Add Live Trace as as Data Source
3. Select Scenario (I chose Local Network Interfaces)
4. Enter a session filter expression like *address == 10.1.2.129 to filter only traffic to your sql server.
5. Click start
6. Right click on column header in the massage table and select Add columns...
7. Add TDS > SQLBatch > SqlBatchPacketData > SQLText

This should give you something like the following

Unfortunately there is no autoscroll implemented at the moment, but you can sort by timestamp and have the new queries popping up at the top.