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Reading Extended Event File Session Data
Using Extended Events to trap/trace information allows the trapping of that information to various targets. One of the targets I will frequently tell people to use is the file target. The reasoning for...
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Database Drops in SQL 2012
In the previous article on this topic (which can be read here), I discussed the problem of having a database get dropped and the need to find out who dropped the database and when they dropped it. In...
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New Extended Events for 2016
As we begin to get a grasp of all that is available with SQL Server 2016 and all of the new features, it is a great idea to see what else has been made available to us in order to help support and...
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Database Settings Changes – Red Handed
One of my pet-peeves (and consequently frequent topic of discussion) is finding database settings (or any setting that has changed) without knowing about it. Worse yet is finding that the change has...
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Extended Events Removed from 2016
SQL Server 2016 is on the horizon. We have a few CTP versions already released for download, allowing people to become more and more familiar with the product. Recently, I wrote about how SQL Server...
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Shredding XML in XEvents
One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate – XML. XML is so foreign to many DBAs. It’s not relational and often brings nightmares of parsing and performance issues....
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Shredding Extended Event Actions
The other day I wrote about that torrid love/hate relationship DBAs tend to have with working with XML. In that same post, I promised I would have a follow up post about XML in Extended Events. Well,...
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Viewing Deployed XEvent Metadata
Today will be the first of a few introductory level posts about Extended Events. When dealing with Extended Events, there are a few ways to take a look some of the metadata. Not all metadata is...
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Viewing Running XEvent Metadata
In the previous article, I wrote about getting into some of the metadata to take a peek at session metadata relevant to deployed Extended Event sessions. Today, I will continue talking about metadata....
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XEvent Session Supporting Cast
So far, in this series, I have discussed the means to view the metadata associated with Extended Events. I also demonstrated some quick and simple means to retrieve some metadata via the catalog views...
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Extended Events Packages
Today, I continue on with exploring some of the metadata concerning Extended Events. To date, I have explored various aspects of session metadata whether the session is running or stopped. Today, I...
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Extended Events Objects
So far, I have talked about some of the metadata associated with Extended Events. But I have not yet started to dive into the individual components of that metadata. Today I want to start diving into...
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Learning Extended Events in 60 Days
This post will serve as the landing page for a series I am calling 60 Days of Extended Events. The purpose of these posts will be to help somebody progress through the Extended Events Concepts and...
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One Easy Strategy for the Database Enterprise
Welcome to the second Tuesday of the month. And in the database world of SQL Server and the SQL Server community, that means it is time for TSQL2SDAY. This month the host is Jen McCown (blog /...
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Extended Events Categories
I recently delved into a brief explanation of Packages as they correlate to Extended Events. In that article, I left a couple of things un-said about packages – leaving them for this article. Packages...
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Extended Events – Events
After thrilling dives into the XEvent Core Concepts of packages, channels and objects, today we have the core concept of “Event.” If you recall, an event is some point of interest that may or may not...
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Extended Events – Event Anatomy
So far in these brief discussions about Extended Events, I have covered several core concepts including a basic introduction into what an Event is within Extended Events. For a recap on those articles,...
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Extended Events and Fixed Schemas
Working with databases, XML, and many software applications, it is not uncommon to deal with fixed schemas. In the database world, it is fairly fundamental to have some sort of schema. The schema...
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Actions In Extended Events
The next component to discuss is Actions. I have discussed various aspects of events, schemas, categories and packages as some of the core concepts of Extended Events. Actions, is another of the core...
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Storing Event Data
Among the several core concepts of Extended Events is the concept of storing event payloads / data. When an event fires, it would not be far-fetched to want to be able to review that data at some time...
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