Outer Join - Jon Baker : Is Microsoft becoming Big Brother with SQL Server 2005?

Outer Join - Jon Baker : Is Microsoft becoming Big Brother with SQL Server 2005?: "Did you know that, by default, there is a server side trace running on your SQL Server 2005 instance? No, Microsoft is not Big Brother looking over your shoulder! At least I don't think they are in this instance anyway :)

Rather, this is a light-weight trace that is always running to collect some data about what's going on in SQL Server."