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Trying to diagnose an problem, I've ran into that inconsistency. In SQL Server Profiler, the RPC Starting event uses the regional settings to write real numbers (example: in Portuguese(Brazil) 14.5 will be expressed as 14,5). Normally that's not a problem, except where the RPC call is a stored procedure with real number parameters. So what is expected to be expressed as:

exec usp_something 'blabla', 14.5

Is expressed as:

exec usp_something 'blabla', 14,5

Which gives a lot of headaches when you have a long parameter list. Didn't find any clue online how to change that behavior.

Someone knows a way to change that behavior?

Btw: I'm aware that the workaround is to use SP Starting event instead, which uses '.' for decimal separator.

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    Do you also see this with an Extended Event trace of rpc_starting events? I suspect this is a bug but, given Profiler/SQL Trace are deprecated, it might not get much attention.
    – Dan Guzman
    May 11, 2018 at 10:14
  • @Dan :All logins' default language are English. SQL Server Profiler version: 10.0.1600.22
    – Fabricio Araujo
    Apr 12, 2019 at 17:50
  • @Dan: OS language is portuguese (both client and server)
    – Fabricio Araujo
    Apr 12, 2019 at 17:51
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    Yeah. That might be the reason. I bet if you create a new OS (for testing) with English version you will not see the strange behavior.
    – Danilo Braga
    Apr 12, 2019 at 18:12

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Starting SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has introduced Extended events. It can be used instead of SQL trace; maybe it does not have this bug. Here is the simplest code to create one:

CREATE EVENT SESSION [NewSession] ON SERVER 
ADD EVENT sqlserver.rpc_completed

It is more readable and easy to understand. Paul Randal has a great article. It describes how to convert your SQL trace to a new session (Extended Event)

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