Can I use the Plan Cache in SQL Server Tuning Advisor when using a second server to do the workload?

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I work with a live production server with several hundred tables and stored procedures. Ideally, I'd use the Plan Cache option in Tuning Advisor to assist in optimizing, because jobs are run on schedules ranging from seconds to weeks apart, so profile traces won't reflect the whole system. We want to use the backup/test server to do the workload analysis, but it seems to only accept trace files or SQL scripts to analyze, which are passed as part of an XML file. Is there any way to utilize the Plan cache on the production server?

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